Re: stable? quality assurance?

[Alejandro Riveira FernÃndez]

El Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:51:42 +0200
Martin Steigerwald <Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> escribiÃ:


> 
> One reason for a demand for me is best expressed by this question: Does 
> the kernel developer community want to encourage that a group of advanced 
> Linux users - but mostly non-developers - compile their own vanilla or 
> valnilla near kernels, provide wider testing and report a bug now and 
> then?
> 
> I can live with either answer. If not, I just will be much more reluctant 
> to try out new kernels.

 I for one stopped booting into -rc kernels.
 The fact that still have to patch my kernels with a *one* liner
 since 2.6.29 kernel [1] does not give me confidence on the "test
 report/bisect and it will be fixed" promise some have made in this
 threath
 
 [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13362

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