Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:06:28 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: Slow DOWN, please!!! |
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On Thu, 1 May 2008 14:41:05 +0200 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> > The testing is not really a part of the process right now, though. > We somehow hope that the kernel will be tested sufficiently before a > major release, but we don't measure the testing coverage, for > example.
Well. Take 2.6.25.. we know Fedora shipped it in their alpha's and betas (and in rawhide). Those are used by a lot of people; so for me that's a whole bunch of coverage right there. Is it perfect? No. But in a way it's in the spirit of open source: the people who care about a stable release the most (distros) [1], helped us getting this tested. The other people on this thread we care greatly at least also help us test in general.
[1] Not trying to say no single person wouldn't care; but a distro tends to care more due to the sheer number of users...
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