Release Frequency and Testing

[Robert La Ferla]

What testing gets performed prior to an official httpd 2.x release?  I 
think whatever test suite is used, needs some updating to include 
configurations that utilize more features like user tracking, caching 
and multi-views.  The last release (2.0.48) crashes on startup for my 
configuration which includes those features.  I will submit a bug report 
later.  However, I have seen some previous releases that had other crash 
bugs on startup as well.  2.0.48 was supposed to be a bug fix release 
but some other bugs were introduced.  If the frequency of the 2.x 
releases was greater (shorter time between releases), it wouldn't be as 
a big of a problem.  I have noticed that 2.x releases seem to take much 
longer than ones in the 1.x days.  I guess what I am saying here is that 
I hope there can be some discussion about the frequency of releases 
(making a conscious effort to make them more frequent) as well as a 
review of what testing gets done prior to a release.