Message-Id: <200501041534.j04FY9g7008583@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
cc: "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 Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> 
   of "Tue, 04 Jan 2005 04:12:29 BST." <20050104031229.GE26856@postel.suug.ch> 
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 12:34:09 -0300
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> said:
> * Theodore Ts'o <20050104002452.GA8045@thunk.org> 2005-01-03 19:24

[...]

> > I was thinking more about every week or two (ok, two releases in a day
> > like we used to do in the 2.3 days was probably too freequent :-), but
> > sure, even going to a once-a-month release cycle would be better than
> > the current 3 months between 2.6.x releases.

> It definitely satifies many of the impatients but it doesn't solve the
> stability problem. Many bugs do not show up on developer machines until
> just right after the release (as you pointed out already). rc releases
> don't work out as expected due to various reasons, i think one of them
> is that rc releases don't get announced on the newstickers, extra work
> is required to patch the kernel etc. What about doing a test release
> just before releasing the final version. I'm not talking about yet
> another 2 weeks period but rather just 2-3 days and at most 2 bk
> releases in between.

And most users will just wait the extra 2 or 3 days before timidly dipping
in. Doesn't work.
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