Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030448AbVLHD3s (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:29:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030447AbVLHD3r (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:29:47 -0500 Received: from smtp104.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([68.142.229.101]:19897 "HELO smtp104.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030448AbVLHD3r (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:29:47 -0500 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Matthias Andree Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:29:42 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20051203135608.GJ31395@stusta.de> <20051207112909.GA4012@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <20051207112909.GA4012@merlin.emma.line.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512072229.42335.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1469 Lines: 33 On Wednesday 07 December 2005 06:29, Matthias Andree wrote: > On Tue, 06 Dec 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > On 12/6/05, Matthias Andree wrote: > > > > > > QA has to happen at all levels if it is supposed to be affordable or > > > scalable. The development process was scaled up, but QA wasn't. > > > > > > How about the Signed-off-by: lines? Those people who pass on the changes > > > also pass on the bugs, and they are responsible for the code - not only > > > license-wise, but also quality-wise. That's the latest point where > > > regression tests MUST happen. > > > > People who pass the changes can only test ones they have hardware for. > > For the rest they can try to validate the code by reading patches but > > have to rely on the submitter wrt to the patch actually working. > > What I'm saying is that people (maintainer) should have a selected > number of people (users) test the patches before they are merged. > And we try. Take for example psmouse_resync patch that is now in -mm. I got about 30 reports that it worked and fixed people's problems before I got it to Andrew. And still as soon as it got to -mm I got a complaint that it failed on one of boxes ;( -- Dmitry - 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/