On 2012-01-21 15:12+0100 Daniel Vetter wrote:
drm-intel-testing is drm-intel-next and drm-intel-fixes merged together (as the time of when I've pushed things out). Gordon Jin said that he prefers to qa one single branch and that qa will take the job of finding out whether an issue has been introduced in -fixes or in -next. I agree that it makes more sense to test everything together, otherwise you'll miss some of the bugfixes in -fixes.
As an Intel graphics user whose number-one concern is stability, I have to make a comment here. I fully appreciate that the top priority for qa should be the cutting edge so that Intel developers get quick feedback on their changes. But that leaves the -fixes branch untested _on its own_ by qa, and I urge Gordon Jin to rethink that decision. After all, the -fixes branch is quite important to the end user of Intel graphics since it generally propagates sooner than -intel-testing to the users. Also, doing qa for both -intel-testing and -fixes should not double the burden on the qa group since -fixes is much less volatile so doesn't have to be tested nearly as often as -intel-testing. In sum, my feeling is that if the -fixes branch is to have any separate meaning at all, it has to go through the same qa process (although not as often) as drm-intel-testing. My $0.02. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
