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Message-ID: <20080430080628.34e5183b@infradead.org> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:06:28 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com> Subject: Re: Slow DOWN, please!!! On Thu, 1 May 2008 14:41:05 +0200 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> wrote: > > The testing is not really a part of the process right now, though. > We somehow hope that the kernel will be tested sufficiently before a > major release, but we don't measure the testing coverage, for > example. Well. Take 2.6.25.. we know Fedora shipped it in their alpha's and betas (and in rawhide). Those are used by a lot of people; so for me that's a whole bunch of coverage right there. Is it perfect? No. But in a way it's in the spirit of open source: the people who care about a stable release the most (distros) [1], helped us getting this tested. The other people on this thread we care greatly at least also help us test in general. [1] Not trying to say no single person wouldn't care; but a distro tends to care more due to the sheer number of users... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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