LWN: Comments on "Quote of the week"

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alonz — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 04:44:33 +0000

One could argue that, as a minimum, patches must not be considered "stable" until they have actually been released in n>=1 non-rc releases. (And I can certainly see valid arguments, given the current lack of testing, to make this "n" at least 2-3.)

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edeloget — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 16:52:26 +0000

Creating such metrics is not really hard : it's just a matter of fetching the Reviewed-by and Tested-by tags in the kernel commits.

But then, the challenge is to find these tags in the kernel commits :)

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JoeBuck — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 18:39:42 +0000

That works if testing reveals the mistakes quickly enough that others don't build on top of the flawed change.

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NAR — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 12:35:22 +0000

I'm afraid software development (despite all of the methodologies) is still basically a trial-and-error process - the faster I can make a change, the faster I can fail and go to an other solution that might not fail. So it is important to make the process fast.