From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Justin Wells <jread@semiotek.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please tag tested releases of the 2.4.x kernel
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:15:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011130151550.F504@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011130220451.9D5AD38326@fever.semiotek.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011130220451.9D5AD38326@fever.semiotek.com>
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:04:51PM -0500, Justin Wells wrote:
>
> It would be great if on kernel.org there were a note indicating which
> releases of the linux kernel had been favourably received.
>
> If you could organize a bit you could even mark a release as "TESTED",
> or even "APPROVED". All it would mean is that after it had been out for
> a week or two nobody found any really serious problems.
>
> "Really serious" would be something like it corrupts the filesystem, or
> crashes a lot, or fails to build, or introduces a remote root exploit.
> Releases like 2.4.14 (fails to build loopback) and 2.4.15 (corrupts)
> would not be tagged as "APPROVED".
>
> Also "APPROVED" or "TESTED" doesn't mean there are no issues or problems,
> just that they're the usual kind of issues and problems, rather than
> really serious issues.
>
> I expect there to be quite a bit of human judgement involved in applying
> the label. I'm not looking for a rigorous criteria--just the general
> feeling of the community a week or two after the release was posted.
>
> Justin
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-30 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-30 22:04 Please tag tested releases of the 2.4.x kernel Justin Wells
2001-11-30 23:15 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2001-12-01 0:28 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-12-01 9:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-01 1:05 willy tarreau
2001-12-01 1:10 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-12-01 2:42 ` Ian Stirling
2001-12-01 2:53 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-12-01 11:31 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-12-02 23:38 Justin Wells
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