Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Jan 2005 05:14:16 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: starting with 2.7 |
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At some point in the past, someone wrote: >>> The joint approach also has major advantages, even for quality: >>> All testing happens on the same codebase. >>> Previously, the testing focus was split between the stable and unstable >>> branch, to the detriment of *both*.
At some point in the past, someone else wrote: >> You think so? I think the number of people testing the 2.4.xx-rc >> versions AND the 2.6.xx-bkN versions is a small (nonzero) percentage of >> total people trying any new release. I think people test what they plan >> to use, so there's less competition for testers than you suggest. People >> staying with 2.4 test that, people wanting or needing to move forward >> test 2.6.
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 08:42:36AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Actually I suspect the number of people testing 2.4.xx-rc is *really* > small now. My point however was more towards a 2.6 / 2.7 split, where > the people who want to test newest do 2.7 while people who want to test > stable test 2.6; right now those two groups test basically the same > codebase.
But this is a good thing; new code should meet the prior standards of stability and correctness as should the tree at all times. Efforts to recover it once it is lost to a large degree are doomed.
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