[Pixman] Pushing unreviewed patches to the pixman git repository

[Chris Wilson]

Quoting Matt Turner (2018-06-06 23:55:39)
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 6:06 PM, Siarhei Siamashka
> <siarhei.siamashka at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I noticed that some people with commit access started pushing patches
> > to the pixman git repository without giving the pixman mailing list
> > subscribers any reasonable chance to review them:
> >
> > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pixman/commit/?id=8b95e0e460baa499e54c19d29bf761d34c25badc
> > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pixman/commit/?id=bd2b49185b28c5024597a5e530af9fc25de3193a
> >
> > Yes, these fixes were trivial. But still it would be more polite to
> > actually post patches to the mailing list, collect some reviews and
> > then *wait* at least severaldays before pushing them to the repository
> > (unless the issue is really urgent). Not everyone constantly monitors
> > the mailing list and is able to provide an instant response.
> 
> I hope you don't consider those two patches to be similar cases.
> 
> One was committed without going to the mailing list by someone with
> one patch in pixman every 5 years.
> 
> The other was was sent to the mailing list by a person with plenty of
> pixman contributions and reviewed by two people. In Mesa we wait 24
> hours, for the reasons you describe. Looks like it was close to 24
> hours in this case.
> 
> I'm happy to wait more than 24 hours in the future -- that's no
> problem. I'm just taking issue with the suggestion that the two cited
> examples are somehow the same.

On a similar topic: now that we have the gitlab instance, how do we go
about enabling the reftests to be run automatically?
-Chris