On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:09:52 EST, Alexander Viro said:
> Proposal is a bit naive, though - in most of the cases fuckups merrily
> pass original testing.
We're not going to create a testing procedure that will find all bugs,
since that's essentially impossible. On the other hand, I think we
all need to collectively take 24 or 48 hour off, spend the time downing
several <insert beverage here>, and see if anybody has a good proposal
that would catch 90% of the show-stopper bugs that have slipped through
so far in the 2.4 and 2.5 series, without complicating matters TOO much.
Here's a simple one: a -rcN release has to sit there at least 96
hours before it gets tagged as "final". That's something we've been
quite poor at so far:
rel final last -pre rel delay
2.4.1 29 Jan 23:56 -pre12 29 Jan 10:16 13h40m
2.4.2 21 Feb 17:00 -pre4 16 Feb 11:17 5d 3h45m (2 weekend days)
2.4.3 29 Mar 21:03 -pre8 25 Mar 20:08 4d 1h
2.4.4 27 Apr 18:43 -pre8 26 Apr 10:58 1d 7h45m
2.4.5 25 May 18:26 -pre6 24 May 17:47 1d 0h45m
2.4.6 03 Jul 17:07 -pre9 02 Jul 17:41 23h45m (all on weekend)
2.4.7 20 Jul 14:25 -pre9 19 Jul 22:03 16h22m
2.4.8 10 Aug 21:13 -pre8 09 Aug 17:34 1d 3h45m
2.4.9 16 Aug 11:32 -pre4 14 Aug 19:06 1d 16h24m
2.4.10 23 Sep 11:30 -pre15 22 Sep 20:58 14h32m (all on weekend)
2.4.11 09 Oct 16.55 -pre6 08 Oct 14:18 1d 2h37m
2.4.12 11 Oct 00:59 <none> -- -----
2.4.13 23 Oct 22:28 -pre6 21 Oct 10:54 1d 11h30m (1 weekend day)
2.4.14 05 Nov 15:30 -pre8 03 Nov 17:42 1d 21h45m (2 weekend days)
2.4.15 22 Nov 22:18 -pre9 21 Nov 22:46 23h28m
2.4.16 26 Nov 05:32 -pre1 24 Nov 12:05 1d 17h27m (2 weekend days)
2.4.17 21 Dec 09:52 -rc2 18 Dec 13:38 2d 18h14m
2.4.18 25 Feb 11:40 -rc4 22 Feb 04:28 3d 7h12m (2 weekend days)
So even in many cases where there *were* 2 or 3 day waits, they were
across a weekend - which means quite likely a lot of people didn't
test because they were *home* having *lives*.
Think about it. "Just wait 96 hours".
-- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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