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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Issues with stable process
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Hi Jon,

On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:28:18 -0600 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
>
> In general, though, I think a lot of people see -next as -rc1 without the
> quality control; it's volatile and scary.  So it's not surprising that it
> doesn't get a lot of real-world testing.  And, as long as that's the case,
> there's going to be a lot of bugs that are never caught in -next.

The rule for next is "the code is as ready as can be to be merged by
Linus (or other upstream maintainer)", so, in a sense, it should no be
so scary.  However in actuality, that rule is not followed as well as I
would like (as evidenced by the amount of rebasing that still goes
on).  :-(

Sure we say "release early, release often", but *not* too early,
please.  The cycle should be something like "merge, test, (repeat),
release" - not "merge, release, test (repeat)" as it seems sometimes.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au