Re: Proposed stable release changes

[Stefan Richter]

On Aug 21 Steven Rostedt wrote:
> I guess the other question to ask is, how long does it take for a
> problem to appear after hitting mainline? If a problem is found in -rc4
> before -rc5 comes out, then this would be sufficient. But if the
> problem from -rc4 isn't found till -rc6 then that tells us something
> too.

The estimate of one or two RC periods applies to hardware/ workloads which
everyone has or which wasn't supported by the previous release.  For less
widely used hardware/ workloads which has been supported for years already,
it's more like between 2.5 months ( = a mainline kernel release period)
and more than a year ( = two release periods of typical distributions).
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Stefan Richter
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