Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:30:38 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Rate of change |
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On Tue, Oct 19 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:37:59PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:16:00PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > > > 850 changesets and 3383 revisions since 2.6.9 was released, > > > a little over 24 hours ago. > > > > > > That's pretty impressive. > > > > Given a lot of these are backlogs from folks being > > conservative whilst we were in -rc, perhaps this is an > > indication we need shorter -rc periods ? > > > Actually, we need longer non-rc periods :)
Agree. The rate of change is truly impressive (thank you Andrew and BK!), but personally I'd like to see things settle down a lot more quickly. Instead of having 2-3 weeks of continual patch flood, a week or submitting the stuff that was already done by 2.6.9 by Andrews inclusion criteria (which I completely agree with) results in -rc1, followed by 2-3 weeks of of truly stabilizing bug fixing. Since by virtue of this inclusion criteria development for a particular feature/change is already done by 2.6.9 release, this should be easy [1].
[1] Yeah right, but at least we can try.
-- Jens Axboe
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