Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:42:39 -0400 | From | John Weber <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.21 IDE 91 |
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> And finally a small plea for more testing. Do you even test before > blindly sending patches off to Linus?! Sometimes just watching how > quickly these big patches appears makes it impossible that they have > gotten any kind of testing other than the 'hey it compiles', which I > think it just way too little for something that could possible screw > peoples data up very badly. Frankly, _I'm_ too scared to run 2.5 IDE > currently. The success ratio of posted over working patches is too big.
I run all all of Martin's patches on my machine, and I haven't run into any catastrophic problems (by this I mean problems that cause data loss though I realize that this may not be much of a standard).
I rather like the fact that Martin releases early and often... it usually means that I get a fix right away. I like the "release early and often" approach in a development kernel branch since I do not believe that releasing less often has any correlation to the stability of the product released (look at Windows :).
Martin or Jens, are there any test suites that you would like me to run?
I am currently too stupid to be able to aid in the development directly (lord knows i'm trying to get up to speed), but, in the meantime, I can test the crap out of a kernel :).
-o) J o h n W e b e r /\\ john.weber@linuxhq.com _\/v http://www.linuxhq.com/people/weber/
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