Re: Aix7xxx unstable in 2.4.21-rc2? (RE: Linux 2.4.21-rc2)

john@grabjohn.com
Mon, 26 May 2003 22:53:34 +0100


> > People often prefer "here is -rcxx-acxx, which my EPIA now fully
> > supports" to "here is -rcxx, please test it extensively".

> I dont understand what you mean.

Smaller, more frequent patches, have the advantage of getting more widespread
testing of a common codebase - the problem with testing individual patchsets
separately is that it's quite possible that with only a few people testing any
particular combination, bugs appear in a large -pre or -rc patchset, and prevent
others from testing the rest of that patchset easily. A -pre every week, even
if it only had a few changes, would get more bug reports in, (in my opinion).

John.
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