Re: Suggestion: Lengthen the review period for stable releases from 48 hours to 7 days.

[Christoph Biedl <linux-kernel.bfrz@manchmal.in-ulm.de>]

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>> On Sat 2020-11-14 17:40:36, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote:

>>> Hello. I would like to suggest lengthening the review period for stable
>>> releases from 48 hours to 7 days.
>>> The rationale is that 48 hours is not enough for people to test those
>>> stable releases and make sure there are no regressions for
>>> particular workflows.

Disclaimer: I am mostly a user of stable

It's hard to make a good decision here. I share your position the 48-ish
hours are a fairly short amound of time, and increasing it would grant
more time for tests. As for me, I might resume testing -rc on a regular
base as I used to in the past - which is a time-consuming procedure, and
since I do that as a hobby, sometimes more important things are in the
way. But I have to concede the number of issues that occured only here
was never high, and I don't expect it would grow significantly.

On the other hand the pace of the stable patches became fairly high¹, so
during a week of -rc review a *lot* of them will queue up and I predict
we'll see requests for fast-laning some of them. Also, a release would
immediately be followed by the next -rc review period, a procedure that
gives me a bad feeling.

So for me, I'd appreciate an extension of the review period, even if
it's just four days. But I understand if people prefer to keep the
procedures simple, and get fixes out of the door as soon as possible.

My 2¢

    Christoph

¹ If somebody made statistics on the development of the number of
  patches for stable kernels (in count/second), I'd be curious to see
  the numbers.

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