Re: New (now current development process)

Roman Zippel
2005-10-31T23:58:59Z

Hi,

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:

> I agree regressions are a problem and need to be addressed, but handling all
> non regressions on a non trivial platforms is just impossible IMHO...

Here is a different kind of non trivial regression on a common platform:

$ ll -S /boot/ | grep ...
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1518317 2005-11-01 00:38 vmlinuz-2.6.14
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1506432 2005-08-30 00:36 vmlinuz-2.6.13
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1451154 2004-12-26 16:54 vmlinuz-2.6.10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1432032 2005-06-26 03:50 vmlinuz-2.6.12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1413888 2004-06-21 18:33 vmlinuz-2.6.7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1394801 2004-05-17 22:14 vmlinuz-2.6.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1390233 2004-05-18 01:54 vmlinuz-2.6.6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1315050 2003-09-12 22:10 vmlinuz-2.6.0-test5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1280189 2003-06-06 01:00 vmlinuz-2.5.70
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 918663 2002-11-11 22:42 vmlinuz-2.5.47
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 887758 2004-02-19 01:24 vmlinuz-2.4.25
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 883868 2003-12-20 21:02 vmlinuz-2.4.23
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 875858 2003-08-26 00:39 vmlinuz-2.4.22
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 859547 2003-02-06 22:35 vmlinuz-2.5.59
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 855092 2003-06-14 02:29 vmlinuz-2.4.21
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 703585 2002-12-19 11:58 vmlinuz-2.4.20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 700359 2002-08-03 19:57 vmlinuz-2.4.19
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 690106 2001-01-07 23:38 vmlinuz-2.4.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 678080 2002-03-02 20:48 vmlinuz-2.4.18
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 641409 2001-02-23 02:53 vmlinuz-2.4.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 640950 2001-01-31 01:30 vmlinuz-2.4.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 635339 2001-12-22 03:16 vmlinuz-2.4.17
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 632647 2001-12-04 00:37 vmlinuz-2.4.16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 629787 2001-11-07 22:00 vmlinuz-2.4.14
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 629240 2001-08-11 18:16 vmlinuz-2.4.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 628556 2001-07-21 17:06 vmlinuz-2.4.7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 628386 2001-09-24 00:02 vmlinuz-2.4.10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 627597 2001-10-20 15:14 vmlinuz-2.4.12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 626634 2001-07-11 20:22 vmlinuz-2.4.6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 623325 2001-05-28 01:57 vmlinuz-2.4.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 622619 2001-05-01 16:20 vmlinuz-2.4.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 611493 2001-04-02 20:44 vmlinuz-2.4.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497523 2001-03-30 18:56 vmlinuz-2.2.19
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 495553 2001-03-25 17:24 vmlinuz-2.2.18

I'm a bit scared of this development and I'm afraid that merging all the
new features at high speed has become more important than code quality...

bye, Roman