Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc1

Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-07-12T15:56:29Z

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:42:04 +0200, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:34:59AM +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> > On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 11:29:44 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds
> > <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Ok, there's been a long time between "public" releases, although the
> > > automated BK snapshots have obviously been keeping people up-to-date.
> > > Sorry about that, I blame mainly moving boxes and stuff around...
> >
> > Maybe I'm just missing the whole point but I wonder if we could define
> > a series of 'test' a version should pass before being marked as -rc ir
> > final.
> >
> > Now that we have the automated BK snapshots the "public" release seems
> > to be a minor milestone in the process.
> >
> > I would like to see ltp test suite, OSDL's compile stats and OSDL
> > benchmarking as part of the release process.
> >
> > Does it make sense ?
>
> Unless he really knows what he's doing, no user should use anything
> other than the actual releases (i.e. 2.6.7, 2.6.8, 2.6.9,...).

I agree.

> OSDL does some tests for any -rc and many other people like me do other
> testing. Besides this, most patches already got similar treatment in
> -mm. This might not be a base for an ISO 9000 certificate, but it seems
> to be sufficietely working for finding most problems before the acttual
> release.

OSDL does some test for any -rc but the results of these tests don't affect
the release process. At least not in an official way.

> It would be more important if Linus would release one last -rc that will
> be released unchanged (except for EXTRAVERSION a few days later to catch
> bugs in last minute changes. This might catch more problems like the JFS
> compile problem in 2.6.7.

Right,
and in those days may be OSDL could run the testsuite we are discussing about.

ciao, Paolo

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