Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:13:56PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 04:52:32PM +0100, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
Btw, I used to test every -mm kernel. But since I've switched distros
(gentoo->ubuntu)
and I have less time, I feel it's harder to test -rc or -mm kernels (I
know this isn't a lkml problem
but more a distro problem, but I would love having an ubuntu blessed
repo with current dev kernel
for the latest stable ubuntu release).
There are two parts to this. One is a Ubuntu development kernel which
we can give to large numbers of people to expand our testing pool.
But if we don't do a better job of responding to bug reports that
would be generated by expanded testing this won't necessarily help us.
...
The main problem aren't missing testers [1] - we already have relatively
experienced people testing kernels and/or reporting bugs, and we slowly
scare them away due to the many bug reports without any reaction.
The main problem is finding experienced developers who spend time on
looking into bug reports.
Getting many relatively unexperienced users (who need more guidance for
debugging issues) as additional testers is therefore IMHO not
necessarily a good idea.
[1] and e.g. when Greg says he has a few hundred people who want to
write drivers it would most likely be possible to find a few
dozen additional -rc testers among them
Hum. If only each of those would squash one bug a week besides their own
work...
I would expect he's got a handful that know IDE, another group that is
into network drivers and so on.
I predict that pile of bugs to disappear in weeks (-;
Just my $0.02.
Jan Evert
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