On Thursday 14 July 2005 19:09, Andi Kleen wrote: > > You can't test everything this way, nor should you, but you can test > > many things, and adding a bit of formal testing to the release > > procedure wouldn't be a bad thing IMO. > > In the linux model that's left to the distributions. In fact doing it > properly takes months. You wouldn't want to wait months for a new mainline > kernel. > > Formal testing is not really compatible with "release early, release often" >
This is true. I think we are seeing the effects of releasing more often than we should be into a "stable" tree. Early and Often make sence for developing new features, but should they be pushed into a stable release so often? > You could do things like "run LTP first", but in practice LTP rarely finds > bugs. > > -Andi -- --mgross BTW: This may or may not be the opinion of my employer, more likely not. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
