On 2012-08-28T06:46:46, Greg KH
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 08:55:56AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
In practice, rc5 vs .0 probably won't make much difference at all, but more users will be bitten, else the move was a failure. So this move explicitly plans on users being bitten, detracting from Tumbleweed's rolling ~stable allure, _evading_ developmental regression detection and reporting duties being a major attractor to running rolling ~stable ;-)
That's a really good point. I guess I'm abusing my role here as both a kernel developer who wants to see stable kernels released by the community, and as the Tumbleweed maintainer, sorry about that.
I'm all for helping kernel.org developers out, but at the expense of people who are counting on Tumbleweed to not mess their systems up, I probably shouldn't do that, as you and Lars and others point out.
What I'd suggest is some awareness campaign. With zypper, having Kernel:HEAD as a repository too is trivial, as is installing both kernels. "Want to help out? Boot into the kernel:head kernel and let us know how that goes." Systems that don't want to update but rather stick to the latest stable kernel - that is, my laptop ;-) - won't, but test environments might.
Maybe just have a Tumbleweed:Kernel repo that people can add to get this newer kernel if they want to be on even more of a bleading edge, that would like to the proper Kernel:HEAD release at the -rc5 time period. Perhaps that might balance the needs of users better?
Right, though I am not sure this is all that different from adding Kernel:HEAD as it is? Regards, Lars -- Architect Storage/HA SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org