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Linux kernel 'getting buggier,' leader says (ZDNet)Linux kernel 'getting buggier,' leader says (ZDNet)Posted May 8, 2006 16:00 UTC (Mon) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022)Parent article: Linux kernel 'getting buggier,' leader says (ZDNet)
"A little action item I've given myself is to confirm that this increasing defect rate is really happening," he said. "If it is, we need to do something about it."
"Kernel developers will need to reapportion their time and spend more time fixing bugs," he added. "We may possibly have a bug fix-only kernel cycle, which is purely for fixing up long-standing bugs."
There is, for the -rc process, a theoretical "no big new patches" point, and that is post-rc1. After that point, bugs noted in the -rc get fixed, and smaller patches come in. This doesn't seem to have ever been thoroughly "bug-fixes-only", as 2.6.x.y tend to be, but the mainline has a stabilizing process.
Andrew is in a good position to see the bug problems; notice how much less frequent the -mm releases have become in the last few -rc's. I quote from 2.6.17-rc2-mm1:
- It took six hours work to get this release building and linking in just a
He has to make his zoo of patches apply workably to the point-release or -rc. While we have a stable group for mainline, there isn't the same kind of attention paid to the -mm branch.
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