Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Martin Steigerwald <> | | Subject | Re: stable? quality assurance? | | Date | Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:51:42 +0200 |
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Hi Lee,
Am Sonntag 11 Juli 2010 schrieb Lee Mathers: > Wow! > > First question what is a "desaster"?
For me freezing the machine or at least complete desktop randomly for example. And actually I said "for me" as you can reread on the bottom of your top posting.
> Second question, what makes you so important that you feel you can > makes demands and comments as you did.
Since when I do need to be considered to be important by you or anyone else to make comments? Actually I think I do not - this is still an open mailinglist, isn't it? And I won't waste my time with proofs that I contributed to free software here and there - also to kernel testing what for example Ingo Molnar could testify back in early CFS times where I roughly compiled a kernel a day and to kernel documentation once.
I also do not get why you are attacking me personally. It seems to be that you feel personally attacked by me. But I did not. I just questioned the quality of the kernel and its current quality assurance process. No one is personally bad then anything of that lacks.
One reason for a demand for me is best expressed by this question: Does the kernel developer community want to encourage that a group of advanced Linux users - but mostly non-developers - compile their own vanilla or valnilla near kernels, provide wider testing and report a bug now and then?
I can live with either answer. If not, I just will be much more reluctant to try out new kernels.
But I have experienced working productively with kernel developers like Ingo and tuxonice developer Nigel who where pretty interested in my usage of latest kernels.
I admit my wording could have been friendlier, too, but I was just frustrated out of my recent experiences. What I wanted to achieve is raising concern whether kernel quality actually has decreased and more importantly something needs to be done to make it more stable again.
Well Linus has at least been a bit more reluctant to take big changes after rc1 this cycle, so maybe 2.6.35 will be better again.
> If indeed these are production systems and you are an administrator of > said production systems. I suggest you need to do a little more home > work to expand your knowledge base.
Its production system that have some fault tolerance, i.e. not servers, but laptops and one, not yet all workstations. But for me a certain balance has to be met. I will just downgrade and drop newer kernels or even start skipping whole major versions completely on a regular basis if that turns out to be the only way to have stable enough machines for me. One approach would be to stick to the stable kernels that Greg and the stable team maintains for a longer time
> Hope you have better luck in getting your systems running well.
Thanks. I certainly will. If need be by downgrading.
I hope that someone answers who actually can take some critique. From the current replies I perceive a lack of that ability.
Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature]
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