Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755474Ab3HXSqb (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:46:31 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:48324 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755353Ab3HXSq3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:46:29 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 20:45:26 +0200 From: Stefan Richter To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Willy Tarreau , Josh Boyer , Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , stable , lwn@lwn.net, Guenter Roeck , Hugh Dickins , Johannes Berg , Borislav Petkov , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Proposed stable release changes Message-ID: <20130824204526.39a85312@stein> In-Reply-To: <20130821105459.0b392711@gandalf.local.home> References: <20130820224032.GA20491@kroah.com> <20130820235700.GA7209@kroah.com> <20130821134248.GB16493@home.goodmis.org> <20130821141725.GB20685@1wt.eu> <20130821105459.0b392711@gandalf.local.home> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.17; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1000 Lines: 21 On Aug 21 Steven Rostedt wrote: > I guess the other question to ask is, how long does it take for a > problem to appear after hitting mainline? If a problem is found in -rc4 > before -rc5 comes out, then this would be sufficient. But if the > problem from -rc4 isn't found till -rc6 then that tells us something > too. The estimate of one or two RC periods applies to hardware/ workloads which everyone has or which wasn't supported by the previous release. For less widely used hardware/ workloads which has been supported for years already, it's more like between 2.5 months ( = a mainline kernel release period) and more than a year ( = two release periods of typical distributions). -- Stefan Richter -=====-===-= =--- ==--- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/