Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Jan 2005 06:37:01 +0100 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: starting with 2.7 |
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On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:50:20PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > I disagree Willy, if I see an -rc candidate, even if I'm following an > interesting thread, like Ingo's patches, the rc will get built and > run here, precisely so I can bitch if it doesn't work. I have an > idea there are more like me who are interested as much in whats *new* > as in how well does it run *my* stuff, and that you may possibly be > undercounting us...
I do this too when I have time, but basically, the number of testers is limited to a small percent of the amount of LKML readers. This is why I say it does not get tested on a large scale. Seeing that even slashdot announces new releases, I suspect that releases are tested by 10 or 100 times more users than -rc. If we spend too much time waiting for a few hundred people to test -rc, it is with great deception that we discover that obvious bugs go to the final release unnoticed, like the NFS problem on 2.6.8 which hit me on the first boot. OK, I would have seen it in -rc, but I didn't have time to test -rc this time, and nobody else did enough testing on it. Result, -rc did not serve to catch this obvious one. I agree that a very few days should be better than absolutely nothing, at least to catch build problems, but we should not wait too long.
Cheers, Willy
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