> There's no shortage of issues that need fixing, but since we keep
> merging new stuff, a lot of bugfixing energy gets spend on the new
> cool stuff instead of fixing up any other issues we have.
but if you do this you just end up with a bigger backlog so that the
next one will even be more unstable due to a extreme high change rate.
> Coverity has, as of this writing, identified 728 issues in the current
> kernel. Sure, some of those have already been identified as false or
> ignorable issues, but many are flagged as actual bugs and still more
> are as yet uninspected.
most are mostly false. And the rest is getting looked at. What's the
problem?
> Adrian Bunk has his list of known regressions and, I'll bet, also some
> patches in the trivial queue for small issues.
and all this fixing is happening AS WELL as new features. What makes you
think suddenly even more fixing will happen?
> There are many parts of the kernel that are not documented.
this is where the OSDL Documentation Person will help a lot; a full time
person.
> I'm sure most distributions have a bunch of bug fixing patches lying
> about that they could push.
I doubt it; most have gotten real good at avoiding getting a huge patch
backlog since that is just incredibly expensive ;)
> - A while back, akpm made some statements about being worried that the
> 2.6 kernel is getting buggier
> (http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6069363.html).
and at this years Kernel Summit actual data and general consensus showed
this was unfounded fear; the bugrates are more or less stable, but with
many more users.
>
> - The need for the -stable tree and the (relatively large) number of
> -stable releases between each new major release clearly shows that we
> are leaving lots of regressions in our wake.
No it shows that bugs are getting fixed and delivered to you
IMMEDIATELY. Many many of the -stable things fixed are not in new
things. Is there anything in the -stable process that is not working for
you?
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