Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Issues with stable process

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 02:53:55AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, July 13, 2015 08:28:18 PM Jonathan Corbet wrote:

> > In general, though, I think a lot of people see -next as -rc1 without the
> > quality control; it's volatile and scary.  So it's not surprising that it
> > doesn't get a lot of real-world testing.  And, as long as that's the case,
> > there's going to be a lot of bugs that are never caught in -next.

> Well stated.

> And in addition to that, -next is simply evolving too fast to get any deeper
> testing at any point.

Right.  The one advantage -next does have for testing over individual
development trees is that it's a single point to pick up the majority of
code targetted for -rc1 so where people are doing explicit testing it's
going to be one of the first trees they start looking at after Linus'
tree.

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