Re: Slow DOWN, please!!!

Jeff Garzik
2008-05-09T15:00:58Z

Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>> I get the impression that we're seeing very little non-Stephen testing
>> of linux-next at this stage. I hope we can ramp that up a bit,
>> initially by having core developers doing at least some basic sanity
>> testing.

I try to test linux-next on a few SATA test boxes, but it's definitely
not a daily thing.

> Probably it would make sense also for distro vendors to make linux-next
> snapshosts available in their development distro branches (redhat's
> rawhide, opensuse's factory, etc), to make it easier to test by those
> users who are willing to test if it works in their environment, but don't
> want to compile kernels themselves.

Agreed... any lead time on linux-next testing would be great.

Jeff