Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

Indrek Kruusa
2005-12-04T15:27:52Z

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>>nt model (or at least they have no resources to
>>do testing [Torvalds])
>>c) end-users (or those who are not kernel maintainers) are directed
>>permanently to distros kernels and "stay away from kernel.org you
>>wanna-bees!
>>
>>
>
>this is not what is being said. What is being said is that if you can't
>deal with occasional breakage, you're better off using vendor kernels.
>But.. if you can't deal with occasional breakage, you wouldn't test test
>kernels EITHER. If you can deal with an occasional breakage, I hope you
>and everyone else who can, will run and test kernel.org kernels,
>especially the -rc ones.
>
>Most of the "instability" people complain about with the new 2.6 model
>is caused by people not testing the -rc kernels before they are
>released, so that they end up being released with regressions.
>

I think I have seen special live-cd distribution for KDE beta testers.
Kernel is not a KDE but such a very broken distribution with -rc kernel
could be more easily maintained than "udev forever!". Live-cd (or
live-usb) wouldn't be too flexible - you can't say there "can you give a
whirl to this patch, please" but I bet you will have more testers.

thanks,
Indrek