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SubjectRe: starting with 2.7
Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:34:09PM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
>
>>Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> said:
>>
>>>* Theodore Ts'o <20050104002452.GA8045@thunk.org> 2005-01-03 19:24
>>>
>>>>I was thinking more about every week or two (ok, two releases in a day
>>>>like we used to do in the 2.3 days was probably too freequent :-), but
>>>>sure, even going to a once-a-month release cycle would be better than
>>>>the current 3 months between 2.6.x releases.
>>
>>>It definitely satifies many of the impatients but it doesn't solve the
>>>stability problem. Many bugs do not show up on developer machines until
>>>just right after the release (as you pointed out already). rc releases
>>>don't work out as expected due to various reasons, i think one of them
>>>is that rc releases don't get announced on the newstickers, extra work
>>>is required to patch the kernel etc. What about doing a test release
>>>just before releasing the final version. I'm not talking about yet
>>>another 2 weeks period but rather just 2-3 days and at most 2 bk
>>>releases in between.
>>
>>And most users will just wait the extra 2 or 3 days before timidly dipping
>>in. Doesn't work.
>
>
> Some will start testing right away, others will wait 2 or 3 days
> first. And that's fine. Not all 2.6.x kernels will be good; but if
> we do releases every 1 or 2 weeks, some of them *will* be good. The
> problem with the -rc releases is that we try to predict in advance
> which releases in advance will be stable, and we don't seem to be able
> to do a good job of that. If we do a release every week, my guess is
> that at least 1 in 3 releases will turn out to be stable enough for
> most purposes. But we won't know until after 2 or 3 days which
> releases will be the good ones.

I'm not an optimist; I assumed -rc meant "only fixes" and was worth
testing to get bugs identified. And that's what I would hope could
happen again. If you think -fo (fixes only) is a better term I wouldn't
argue.

--
-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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