Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Jan 2005 19:00:32 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: starting with 2.7 |
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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.
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