Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | | Subject | Re: starting with 2.7 | | Date | Wed, 5 Jan 2005 02:04:04 -0500 |
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On Wednesday 05 January 2005 00:37, Willy Tarreau wrote: >On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:50:20PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I disagree Willy, if I see an -rc candidate, even if I'm following >> an interesting thread, like Ingo's patches, the rc will get built >> and run here, precisely so I can bitch if it doesn't work. I have >> an idea there are more like me who are interested as much in whats >> *new* as in how well does it run *my* stuff, and that you may >> possibly be undercounting us... > >I do this too when I have time, but basically, the number of testers >is limited to a small percent of the amount of LKML readers. This is >why I say it does not get tested on a large scale. Seeing that even >slashdot announces new releases, I suspect that releases are tested >by 10 or 100 times more users than -rc. If we spend too much time >waiting for a few hundred people to test -rc, it is with great > deception that we discover that obvious bugs go to the final > release unnoticed, like the NFS problem on 2.6.8 which hit me on > the first boot. OK, I would have seen it in -rc, but I didn't have > time to test -rc this time, and nobody else did enough testing on > it. Result, -rc did not serve to catch this obvious one. I agree > that a very few days should be better than absolutely nothing, at > least to catch build problems, but we should not wait too long. >
FWIW Willy, I did build a couple of the rc's there (coming up on 2.6.8), now of course entropy has set in and I couldn't prove it, the space has been reclaimed, whatever. My point is that the rc's didn't bite me, only the final, and it bit hard.
Again, to TPTB, give us a few days to beat on it in the rc mode, then rename whats working to final. In the meantime, I'm back to beating on Ingo's stuff for the moment.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.31% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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