Message-Id: <200501032113.j03LDWsa004885@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
       Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Diego Calleja <diegocg@teleline.es>,
       Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>, wli@holomorphy.com, aebr@win.tue.nl,
       solt2@dns.toxicfilms.tv, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 
In-Reply-To: Message from "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> 
   of "Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:36:21 CDT." <20050103183621.GA2885@thunk.org> 
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 18:13:32 -0300
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> said:

[...]

> The real key, as always, is getting users to download and test a
> release.  So another approach might be to shorten the time between
> 2.6.x and 2.6.x+1 releases, so as to recreate more testing points,
> without training people to wait for -bk1, -bk2, -rc1, etc. before
> trying out the kernel code.  This is the model that we used with the
> 2.3.x series, where the time between releases was often quite short.
> That worked fairly well, but we stopped doing it when the introduction
> of BitKeeper eliminated the developer synch-up problem.  But perhaps
> we've gone too far between 2.6.x releases, and should shorten the time
> in order to force more testing.  

Is there any estimate of the number of daily-straight-from-BK users? I'm
one, haven't seen any trouble (thus silent up to here).
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