From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266878AbUGLP43 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:56:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266879AbUGLP43 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:56:29 -0400 Received: from mproxy.gmail.com ([216.239.56.250]:16569 "HELO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266878AbUGLP4Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:56:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4d8e3fd304071208566280e89b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:56:14 +0200 From: Paolo Ciarrocchi To: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc1 Cc: Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20040712154204.GS4701@fs.tum.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <4d8e3fd3040712023469039826@mail.gmail.com> <20040712154204.GS4701@fs.tum.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:42:04 +0200, Adrian Bunk 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 > > 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 -- paoloc.doesntexist.org