Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 04 Dec 2005 17:26:35 +0200 | | From | Indrek Kruusa <> | | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>nt model (or at least they have no resources to >>do testing [Torvalds]) >>c) end-users (or those who are not kernel maintainers) are directed >>permanently to distros kernels and "stay away from kernel.org you >>wanna-bees! >> >> > >this is not what is being said. What is being said is that if you can't >deal with occasional breakage, you're better off using vendor kernels. >But.. if you can't deal with occasional breakage, you wouldn't test test >kernels EITHER. If you can deal with an occasional breakage, I hope you >and everyone else who can, will run and test kernel.org kernels, >especially the -rc ones. > >Most of the "instability" people complain about with the new 2.6 model >is caused by people not testing the -rc kernels before they are >released, so that they end up being released with regressions. >
I think I have seen special live-cd distribution for KDE beta testers. Kernel is not a KDE but such a very broken distribution with -rc kernel could be more easily maintained than "udev forever!". Live-cd (or live-usb) wouldn't be too flexible - you can't say there "can you give a whirl to this patch, please" but I bet you will have more testers.
thanks, Indrek
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