Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 1 Dec 2001 13:00:48 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: Re: Please tag tested releases of the 2.4.x kernel |
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[It would be nice f you could teach your mailer about replies..]
Hi Justin,
In article <20011201113734.5187E38329@fever.semiotek.com> you wrote: > And the kernels on kernel.org *are* tested, by lots of people, by kernel > developers, by lots of ordinary folks even. I bet right after theren's > an announce on slashdot you see lots of traffic on the ftp/http sites.
The problem is that there is absoloutly no defined QA-cycle for these kernels. Please take a look at what distributors (at least most, I know at least one counter-example):
o they freeze at one public kernel release o they do testing, lots of testing o they apply bugfixes for problems found in their debugging or coming in new releases _only_. No new major changes that might break things.
That's why new distribution releases tend to come with 'old-looking' kernels.
With kernel.org release _any_ new release mixes features, rewrites and bugfixes. I hope this will change a little for 2.4 now that Marcelo who does the above cycle for for Conectiva takes over maintainership. But in can't in whole - noone would really freeze the stable series as strict as distributors do.
Christoph
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