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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:54:01 -0700
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Subject: Re: Proposed stable release changes
From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> We don't want to run daily snapshots of your tree though, right? Only
> -rcs because the daily states are kinda arbitrary and they can be broken
> in various ways. Or are we at a point in time where we can amend that
> rule?

If *nobody* runs daily snapshots - then problems just sit latent all week until
the -rc is released and people start testing. Doesn't sound optimal.

Running daily git snapshots can be "exciting" during the merge window. But
I rarely see problems running a random build after -rc1.  If you are still
running that ancient 3.11-rc6 released on Sunday - then you are missing out
on 28 commits worth of goodness since then :-)

-Tony
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