Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Oct 2004 15:23:18 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: new dev model (was Re: Default cache_hot_time value back to 10ms) |
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>> it is also correct that the pile of patches in the -mm tree mask the QA >> effects of testing done on -mm, so testing -BK separately is just as >> important at this stage. > > The simple fact is that -mm doesn't receive _nearly_ the amount of testing that a 2.6.x -BK snapshot does, which in turn doesn't receive _nearly_ the amount of testing that a 2.6.x-rc release gets.
Not sure that's true. Personally I test all -mm releases, and not -bk snapshots ... I've heard similar from other people.
If everyone pushed their stuff through -mm, and it sat there for a few days before going upstream, we'd get a much better opportunity to test.
M.
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