Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:55:23 +0100 | From | Jan Evert van Grootheest <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs |
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Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:13:56PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 04:52:32PM +0100, Benoit Boissinot wrote: >> >>> Btw, I used to test every -mm kernel. But since I've switched distros >>> (gentoo->ubuntu) >>> and I have less time, I feel it's harder to test -rc or -mm kernels (I >>> know this isn't a lkml problem >>> but more a distro problem, but I would love having an ubuntu blessed >>> repo with current dev kernel >>> for the latest stable ubuntu release). >>> >> There are two parts to this. One is a Ubuntu development kernel which >> we can give to large numbers of people to expand our testing pool. >> But if we don't do a better job of responding to bug reports that >> would be generated by expanded testing this won't necessarily help us. >> ... >> > > The main problem aren't missing testers [1] - we already have relatively > experienced people testing kernels and/or reporting bugs, and we slowly > scare them away due to the many bug reports without any reaction. > > The main problem is finding experienced developers who spend time on > looking into bug reports. > > Getting many relatively unexperienced users (who need more guidance for > debugging issues) as additional testers is therefore IMHO not > necessarily a good idea. > > [1] and e.g. when Greg says he has a few hundred people who want to > write drivers it would most likely be possible to find a few > dozen additional -rc testers among them > Hum. If only each of those would squash one bug a week besides their own work... I would expect he's got a handful that know IDE, another group that is into network drivers and so on.
I predict that pile of bugs to disappear in weeks (-;
Just my $0.02.
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