Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 05:46:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 05:46:49 -0500 Received: from [62.245.135.174] ([62.245.135.174]:26243 "EHLO mail.teraport.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 05:46:38 -0500 Message-ID: <3C021D87.E0390883@TeraPort.de> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:46:31 +0100 From: Martin Knoblauch Organization: TeraPort GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.15-greased-turkey i686) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jjasen1@umbc.edu CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Kernel Releases X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on lotus/Teraport/de(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 11/26/2001 11:46:31 AM, Serialize by Router on lotus/Teraport/de(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 11/26/2001 11:46:38 AM, Serialize complete at 11/26/2001 11:46:38 AM Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Re: Kernel Releases > > > > Development kernels are development kernels... nothing else. Look to > > distributors for high degrees of quality assurance testing. When you run a > > development kernel you have joined the development team, even if you don't > > know it. Finding and reporting bugs is your job... > > That's why you stay away from 2.5.x, or 2.4.x-pre, or 2.4.x-ac -- which > are development kernels. 2.4.x kernels are released kernels. > The point being made (I believe) is that recently the "released" kernels have had a low quality with showstopper-quality bugs being introduced, but not detected, very late in the -preX cycle. What the initiator of this thread wants is a longer testing of the last -preX version. And changes between that an the "release" confined to bug/doc fixing *only*. Whether this has to be under the "-rcX" label, or not - the idea behind it is sound. Martin -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch | email: Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de TeraPort GmbH | Phone: +49-89-510857-309 C+ITS | Fax: +49-89-510857-111 http://www.teraport.de | Mobile: +49-170-4904759 - 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/