Re: Linux 2.6.24

["Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@cateee.net>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> The release is out there (both git trees and as tarballs/patches), and for 
>> the next week many kernel developers will be at (or flying into/out of) 
>> LCA in Melbourne, so let's hope it's a good one.
> 
> Since I already had two kernel developers asking about the merge window 
> and whether people (including me) traveling will impact it, the plan right 
> now is to keep the impact pretty minimal. So yes, it will probably extend 
> the window from the regular two weeks, but *hopefully* not by more than a 
> few days.

As a tester, I'm not so happy.
The last few merge windows were a nightmare for us (the tester).
It remember me the 2.1.x times, but with few differences:
- more changes, so bugs are unnoticed/ignored in the first weeks or
- or people are pushing more patches possible, so they delay
   bug corrections to later times (after merge windows).

If it continues so, I should stop testing the kernel on the
merge windows (but it seems that other testers already give up
the early merge phase).

As a tester I would like:
- slow merges, so that developer could rebase and test
   (compile test) the interaction of the new code.
- you will introduce a new step on git management:
   Every changeset is compile-tested before going out to the world.
   I think this can be done automatically, and I think that one or
   two configurations are enough to find most of the problems.

Happy LCA,
ciao
	cate