Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262005AbVADAu2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 19:50:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262022AbVADAqR (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 19:46:17 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([216.238.38.203]:19213 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262005AbVADAma (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 19:42:30 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 19:02:04 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Davidsen To: Jesper Juhl cc: Horst von Brand , "Theodore Ts'o" , Adrian Bunk , Diego Calleja , Willy Tarreau , 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-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1793 Lines: 41 On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Horst von Brand wrote: > > > "Theodore Ts'o" 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). > > I'm another. Every morning when I turn on my machine I grab the latest > -bk, build it with my usual config, install that kernel and reboot, then > use that as my "kernel of the day". I do this on both my home and work > box (well, the work box only does this on mondays) and I've had very > little trouble so far. Somewhere there is a pawn shop with only one big brass ball, and I know where the other two are... -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - 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/