Lo! On 20.01.22 09:38, Sumantro Mukherjee wrote: > > I would like to invite all of you to participate in the Kernel 5.16 > Test week is happening from 2022-01-23 to 2022-01-29. It's > fairly simple, head over to the wiki [0] and read in detail about the > test week and simply run the test case mentioned in[1] and enter your > results. > [...] > [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2022-01-23_Kernel_5.16_Test_Week > [1] https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/events/126 > [2] https://badges.fedoraproject.org/badge/science-kernel-tester-i
Wouldn't it be better for everyone if stable pre-releases would be offered for testing in these test weeks, *if* they are available at that time? I was just wondering that, as according to your [0] it seems that 5.16.2 is still being tested currently, but 5.16.3 is up for review already since Monday -- with more that 1000 changes: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/[email protected]/ [note, there are newer pre-releases for 5.16.3 already] These changes might fix a few bugs testers otherwise might run into without need -- or introduce new bugs that thus can be found and fixed before 5.16.y hits updates-testing. I bring this up, as situations like happened a few times already, as Greg often merges a big bunch of changes in the first two weeks after a mainline rc1 is out (see https://lwn.net/Articles/863505/ ) -- and that's usually the time when the kernel test week happens. Ciao, Thorsten P.S.: kernel.spec until a few years had some code that made building stable rcs easy, but it was removed (and likely won't work well the the ask based kernel.spec anyway). _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
