Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 08:38:26AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[email protected]> writes:
[...] >> > Should we add a policy for bitrotting untested code? >> >> What policy do you have in mind? > > Implicitly I consider the policy to effectively be > > (1) Platforms untested by GitLab CI are not guaranteed to work at > any time, including in formal releases. > (2) No contributors/maintainers are obligated to investigate or > fix breakage in untested platforms > (3) Those whom care about the platform are expected to perform > manual testing and contribute fixes as required. > > This doesn't imply we should automatically rip it out, but if we see > no evidence of (3) for a prolonged period of time, and no sign of it > being used downstream in any way, it is worth considering the cost / > benefit. Sounds good to me. Put it in docs/ somewhere? [...]
