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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:44:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: PROBLEM: Kernel Panic on 2.5.6 and 2.5.7-pre1
 boot [PATCH] and discussion of Linux testing procedures 
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On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:09:52 EST, Alexander Viro said:
> 
> > Proposal is a bit naive, though - in most of the cases fuckups merrily
> > pass original testing.
> 
> 
> We're not going to create a testing procedure that will find all bugs,
> since that's essentially impossible.  On the other hand, I think we
> all need to collectively take 24 or 48 hour off, spend the time downing
> several <insert beverage here>, and see if anybody has a good proposal
> that would catch 90% of the show-stopper bugs that have slipped through
> so far in the 2.4 and 2.5 series, without complicating matters TOO much.
> 
> Here's a simple one:  a -rcN release has to sit there at least 96
> hours before it gets tagged as "final".  That's something we've been
> quite poor at so far:

Well, let's see.  I can't speak for other folks, but the worst of mine
during 2.4 was in 2.4.15-pre9.  The rest was minor and IIRC didn't make
it into -final.  That one did, however.  It wasn't caught until 2.4.15 -
not immediately, at that.

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