Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:22:59 +0200 | From | Paolo Ciarrocchi <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc1 |
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:34:17 +0200, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:56:14PM +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > >... > > > OSDL does some tests for any -rc and many other people like me do other > > > testing. Besides this, most patches already got similar treatment in > > > -mm. This might not be a base for an ISO 9000 certificate, but it seems > > > to be sufficietely working for finding most problems before the acttual > > > release. > > > > OSDL does some test for any -rc but the results of these tests don't affect > > the release process. At least not in an official way. > > The Linux kernel development process isn't that much formalized. But if > someone finds a serious new problem in a -rc kernel a fix will usually > go into the next -rc.
I agree.
> Compared to some other open source projects like e.g. Debian the Linux > kernel has a pretty well-working release process (and the 2.6 > development avoided several mistakes of the 2.4 development).
I agree, again.
> > > It would be more important if Linus would release one last -rc that will > > > be released unchanged (except for EXTRAVERSION a few days later to catch > > > bugs in last minute changes. This might catch more problems like the JFS > > > compile problem in 2.6.7. > > > > Right, > > and in those days may be OSDL could run the testsuite we are discussing about. > > The way kernel releases currently work IMHO works well with the > exception that there should be a last -rc that should be released as > -final a few days later if no problems show up. > > What other actual problems do you currently observe?
I really don't want to say that the process is now not working, I'm just saying that it could be improved.
I totally agree with you when you say that there should be a last -rc that should be released as final if no problem show up. What I'd like to add is that in the few days between the last -rc and the final there is enough time automatically run a few tests like the ltp suite, the compile stats and a few regression test.
If nothing strange show up, both from the comunity and the automatically tests, the new version is released.
I don't want to reinvent the wheel, I see that all the tools are already here, most of them are maintained by OSDL, so *may be* we should formalized a bit more the release process.
I don't see any disadvantage in doing this.
ciao, Paolo
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