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SubjectRe: starting with 2.7
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.


-- wli
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