Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:10:11 +0100 | From | "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.24 |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> The release is out there (both git trees and as tarballs/patches), and for >> the next week many kernel developers will be at (or flying into/out of) >> LCA in Melbourne, so let's hope it's a good one. > > Since I already had two kernel developers asking about the merge window > and whether people (including me) traveling will impact it, the plan right > now is to keep the impact pretty minimal. So yes, it will probably extend > the window from the regular two weeks, but *hopefully* not by more than a > few days.
As a tester, I'm not so happy. The last few merge windows were a nightmare for us (the tester). It remember me the 2.1.x times, but with few differences: - more changes, so bugs are unnoticed/ignored in the first weeks or - or people are pushing more patches possible, so they delay bug corrections to later times (after merge windows).
If it continues so, I should stop testing the kernel on the merge windows (but it seems that other testers already give up the early merge phase).
As a tester I would like: - slow merges, so that developer could rebase and test (compile test) the interaction of the new code. - you will introduce a new step on git management: Every changeset is compile-tested before going out to the world. I think this can be done automatically, and I think that one or two configurations are enough to find most of the problems.
Happy LCA, ciao cate
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