Re: RFC: starting a kernel-testers group for newbies

Andrew Morton
2008-05-01T08:14:51Z

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:03:38 -0700 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:

> > First of all:
> > I 100% agree with Andrew that our biggest problems are in reviewing
> > code and resolving bugs, not in finding bugs (we already have far too
> > many unresolved bugs).
>
> I would argue instead that we don't know which bugs to fix first.

<boggle>

How about "a bug which we just added"? One which is repeatable.
Repeatable by a tester who is prepared to work with us on resolving it.
Those bugs.

Rafael has a list of them. We release kernels when that list still has tens of
unfixed regressions dating back up to a couple of months.