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On 26/04/07, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:29:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >... > > So it's been over two and a half months, and while it's certainly not the > > longest release cycle ever, it still dragged out a bit longer than I'd > > have hoped for and it should have. As usual, I'd like to thank Adrian (and > > the people who jumped on the entries Adrian had) for keeping everybody on > > their toes with the regression list - there's a few entries there still, > > but it got to the point where we didn't even know if they were real > > regressions, and delaying things further just wasn't going to help. > >... > > > Number of different known regressions compared to 2.6.20 at the time > of the 2.6.21 release: > 14 > > Number of different known regressions compared to 2.6.20 at the time > of the 2.6.21 release that were first reported in March or earlier: > 8 > > Number of different known regressions compared to 2.6.20 at the time > of the 2.6.21 release with patches available at the time of the 2.6.21 > release [1]: > 3 > > What I will NOT do: > Waste my time with tracking 2.6.22-rc regressions. > > > We have an astonishing amount of -rc testers, but obviously not the > developer manpower for handling them. > > If we would take "no regressions" seriously, it might take 4 or 5 months > between releases due to the lack of developer manpower for handling > regressions. But that should be considered OK if avoiding regressions > was considered more important than getting as quick as possible to the > next two week regression-merge window. > > But releasing with so many known regressions is insulting for the many > people who spent their time testing -rc kernels. > Many people have already said this, but it needs saying again. You are doing a great job that really helps, both with the regression lists and the trivial patch monkey stuff. Please keep up the good work, you are really helping the kernel. -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - 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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