netdev call - Dec 4th

Hi,

The bi-weekly netdev call at https://bbb.lwn.net/b/jak-wkr-seg-hjn
is scheduled tomorrow at 8:30 am (PT) / 5:30 pm (~EU).

I, again, have a minor update on the CI. I'd also like to talk about end-of-year shutdown. Please suggest / come to the meeting with other topics!

In terms of the review rotation - this week's reviewer is nVidia.

ENOCOFFEE.

I mean Dec 5th, obviously, i.e. tomorrow.

Meeting notes:

* Testing:
* The testing repo is now fully operational, branches are combined net + net-next + all cleanly building patches from patchwork.
* next step for Jakub is to use it to run slow build tests (htmldocs, cocci)
* Jesse trying to get GitHub runner targeting Intel-internal machines
* reach out to Jesse / Jakub for access to the GitHub

* Winter Holidays shutdown:
* Anticipate merge window to start Jan 7th
* Initial plan - 1 week starting Sat, Dec 23rd to Tue, Jan 2nd
* Polling in the meeting: 5 votes for 1 week of shutdown, 2 votes for 2 weeks
* net-next will be closed for new features (fixes for code in net-next will be accepted)

* Dealing with inter-dependencies w/ other trees: what if something that landed in net-next is needed in RDMA? If it’s already in, it’s too late, if we’re told in advance we can make a “stable branch”.
Andrew: note that only build time dependencies are a requirement, if the functionality doesn’t work in either tree until the merge window
- that’s fine.

* Next meeting on January 2nd (skipping one!)