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.