From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4DB8B8B4 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 11:50:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk (mezzanine.sirena.org.uk [106.187.55.193]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A43968D for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 11:50:49 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 12:50:33 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Message-ID: <20150716115033.GA4039@sirena.org.uk> References: <55A1407E.5080800@oracle.com> <20150713210226.519dedfd@gandalf.local.home> <20150713202818.23310729@lwn.net> <16735160.dNHXzIZYtq@vostro.rjw.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16735160.dNHXzIZYtq@vostro.rjw.lan> Cc: Sasha Levin , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Issues with stable process List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 02:53:55AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Monday, July 13, 2015 08:28:18 PM Jonathan Corbet 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. > Well stated. > And in addition to that, -next is simply evolving too fast to get any deeper > testing at any point. Right. The one advantage -next does have for testing over individual development trees is that it's a single point to pick up the majority of code targetted for -rc1 so where people are doing explicit testing it's going to be one of the first trees they start looking at after Linus' tree. --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJVp5qJAAoJECTWi3JdVIfQlZgH/isZ6Wj9yTYMY9u/ZW4qpnrr HjmliXuNNgT4e1dOKFmxmRY0wnkZJ0YSTX5LeGVy2PSUxXZXnh5kt53kpkS8J/fk Bc0DVBBkjERwmY2LAZT/JgcTVYTcIAZ9+kipukK9mMXmQD6MHT9U522iqZydNhHZ td6O/2wfG3eI6KqDTYNoBbG3qS9N1c5UOjOfqMwFVuJk8kdx0xRrqxA/pbPU6a2R eCgi7s0PDYsvq2GK2XkNi0Cjmb6Yms3hsTT2NKlRlkhQjDHJeCioKIDUkVOfTAXi kVaQAGpXdH3D3U+vzobhkEABgfNISqD9dt7VejeJ4Bd23MDeGlCEWrNp9tfuNjY= =sLl1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi--