On 27 Jan 2012, at 03:26, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:52:44PM +0000, Mark Blackman wrote: >> I suspect poor old RE is putting too much work into BETAs and RCs for >> point releases. > > The counter-argument is that we have a lot more leeway to make mistakes > on a .0 release. We're not going to be cut any slack at all for shipping > a badly regressed point release. > > Some minor regressions are inevitable in software, but they do indeed > need to be minor. > > For how we're doing with regressions in general, see: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/prs_for_tag_regression.html > > Now, it's true that many of the recent PRs are against 9.0, and many of > the ones that aren't may be stale (certainly most of the pre-2010 ones), > but these are the types of things that users really notice and become > unhappy about.
All good points, although I'd guess there's some diminishing returns argument for progressive RCs/BETAs, however probably only the RE team have a good feeling for the sweet spot. - Mark _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
