linux-kernel - Re: Suggestion About Kernel Releases

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Message-ID: <84144f020805210826p27c1892bxd84098371e209c1e@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 May 2008 18:26:56 +0300
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Tarkan Erimer" <tarkan@...one.net.tr>
Cc:	"Mike Snitzer" <snitzer@...il.com>,
	"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...radead.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestion About Kernel Releases

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Tarkan Erimer <tarkan@...one.net.tr> wrote:
> It is. As I described above : the "testX" series will change the things as
> producing more tested /stable releases. BTW, it should be much better to
> release less, trouble free kernels instead of releasing fast but fixing
> soon.

You keep saying that but it simply is not true. The more people we
have _waiting_ for a "stable" kernel to graduate from the "testing"
series, the less people we have actually _testing_ the kernel.

So it's probable that your suggestion actually makes the current
situation worse, not better.
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