Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Nov 2006 01:36:45 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: A proposal; making 2.6.20 a bugfix only version. |
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On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:26:41 +0100 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 14:51 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:22:11 +0100 > > Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > > > > > > - A while back, akpm made some statements about being worried that the > > > > 2.6 kernel is getting buggier > > > > (http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6069363.html). > > > > > > and at this years Kernel Summit actual data > > > > Not true. 70% of surveyed users had hit a new kernel bug.
<funny, I could have sworn I had some additional text in here. Where'd it go?>
> 70% of surveyed users hit ANY kernel bug. Not "new bugs" > Including "my new wizzbang hardware doesn't work" and "I'll try > something new, oh looky a 4 year old bug" and "this new feature isn't > quite mature yet now that I try it". > > One of the things that happened was during early 2.6 udev broke left and > right ABI wise. We've gotten a lot better at that, and that's the kind > of bug that hits a really wide audience. > > Statistics can be misleading ... bigtime. > 83% of the people also said things were not getting less reliable in > 2.6. >
70% hit a bug 1/7th think it's deteriorating 1/4th think lkml response is inadequate 3/5ths think bugzilla response is inadequate 2/5ths think we have features-vs-stability wrong 2/3rds hit a bug. Of those, 1/3rd remain unfixed 1/5th of users are presently impacted by a kernel bug
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