Re: Proposed stable release changes

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Aug 22 2013 - 04:57:34 EST


On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 01:54:01PM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We don't want to run daily snapshots of your tree though, right? Only
> > -rcs because the daily states are kinda arbitrary and they can be broken
> > in various ways. Or are we at a point in time where we can amend that
> > rule?
>
> If *nobody* runs daily snapshots - then problems just sit latent all week until
> the -rc is released and people start testing. Doesn't sound optimal.
>
> Running daily git snapshots can be "exciting" during the merge window. But
> I rarely see problems running a random build after -rc1. If you are still
> running that ancient 3.11-rc6 released on Sunday - then you are missing out
> on 28 commits worth of goodness since then :-)

Damn, I'm such a l0z3r!
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/