Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:56:14 +0200 | From | Paolo Ciarrocchi <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc1 |
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:42:04 +0200, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:34:59AM +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 11:29:44 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds > > <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote: > > > > > > Ok, there's been a long time between "public" releases, although the > > > automated BK snapshots have obviously been keeping people up-to-date. > > > Sorry about that, I blame mainly moving boxes and stuff around... > > > > Maybe I'm just missing the whole point but I wonder if we could define > > a series of 'test' a version should pass before being marked as -rc ir > > final. > > > > Now that we have the automated BK snapshots the "public" release seems > > to be a minor milestone in the process. > > > > I would like to see ltp test suite, OSDL's compile stats and OSDL > > benchmarking as part of the release process. > > > > Does it make sense ? > > Unless he really knows what he's doing, no user should use anything > other than the actual releases (i.e. 2.6.7, 2.6.8, 2.6.9,...).
I agree.
> OSDL does some tests for any -rc and many other people like me do other > testing. Besides this, most patches already got similar treatment in > -mm. This might not be a base for an ISO 9000 certificate, but it seems > to be sufficietely working for finding most problems before the acttual > release.
OSDL does some test for any -rc but the results of these tests don't affect the release process. At least not in an official way.
> It would be more important if Linus would release one last -rc that will > be released unchanged (except for EXTRAVERSION a few days later to catch > bugs in last minute changes. This might catch more problems like the JFS > compile problem in 2.6.7.
Right, and in those days may be OSDL could run the testsuite we are discussing about.
ciao, Paolo
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