Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:46:31 +0100 | From | Martin Knoblauch <> | Subject | Re: Kernel Releases |
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> Re: Kernel Releases > > > > Development kernels are development kernels... nothing else. Look to > > distributors for high degrees of quality assurance testing. When you run a > > development kernel you have joined the development team, even if you don't > > know it. Finding and reporting bugs is your job... > > That's why you stay away from 2.5.x, or 2.4.x-pre, or 2.4.x-ac -- which > are development kernels. 2.4.x kernels are released kernels. >
The point being made (I believe) is that recently the "released" kernels have had a low quality with showstopper-quality bugs being introduced, but not detected, very late in the -preX cycle. What the initiator of this thread wants is a longer testing of the last -preX version. And changes between that an the "release" confined to bug/doc fixing *only*. Whether this has to be under the "-rcX" label, or not - the idea behind it is sound.
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