Re: starting with 2.7

[Bill Davidsen]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Horst von Brand wrote:
> 
> > "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> said:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > The real key, as always, is getting users to download and test a
> > > release.  So another approach might be to shorten the time between
> > > 2.6.x and 2.6.x+1 releases, so as to recreate more testing points,
> > > without training people to wait for -bk1, -bk2, -rc1, etc. before
> > > trying out the kernel code.  This is the model that we used with the
> > > 2.3.x series, where the time between releases was often quite short.
> > > That worked fairly well, but we stopped doing it when the introduction
> > > of BitKeeper eliminated the developer synch-up problem.  But perhaps
> > > we've gone too far between 2.6.x releases, and should shorten the time
> > > in order to force more testing.  
> > 
> > Is there any estimate of the number of daily-straight-from-BK users? I'm
> > one, haven't seen any trouble (thus silent up to here).
> 
> I'm another. Every morning when I turn on my machine I grab the latest 
> -bk, build it with my usual config, install that kernel and reboot, then 
> use that as my "kernel of the day". I do this on both my home and work 
> box (well, the work box only does this on mondays) and I've had very 
> little trouble so far.

Somewhere there is a pawn shop with only one big brass ball, and I know
where the other two are...

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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