Re: Why is 2.6.12.2 less stable on my laptop than 2.6.10?

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> Why can't I expect SWSusp work better and more reliable from release to 
> release?  

Patches welcome. Or employ someone to do swsusp development for you.

> Some possible things that could help:
> 
> *Addopt a no-regressions-allowed policy and everthing stops until any 
> identified regressions (in performance, functionally or stability) is fixed 
> or the changes are all rolled back.  This works really well if in addition 
> organized pre-flight testing is done before calling a new version number.  
> You simply cannot rely on ad-hock regression testing and reporting.  Its got 
> too much latency.

This would also mean "no development at all".

> * assign validation folks that the developer need to appease before changes 
> are allowed to be accepted into the tree. 

So... get me someone to test swsusp in each -rc and -mm
release... that would help. If you can't provide the manpower, why are
you whining?

									Pavel
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