On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Greg KH <gre...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 04:40:38PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: >> It just seems like we should be able to get by without a semiweekly >> kernel upgrade on our "stable" branch. > > You want me to slow down and do releases in larger chunks then? Hah, > not a chance... >
To clarify - I wasn't criticizing your release schedule or making all those builds available in ~arch. I was only concerned with the idea of making all those hit stable. I think the kernel team (including yourself) have been doing a great job with the stable kernels in general. Just one other note - stable packages in general don't just benefit from arch testing. They also benefit from users running ~arch and reporting issues. Stable ebuilds are ones that have generally been used by many others for about a month already, so issues are likely to have been caught. I do agree with all that has been said about there being a tradeoff between new regressions and new fixes. Unless we run year-old kernels with tons of backports we're going to have that problem. We aren't RHEL. Rich
