On Sunday, 29 April 2007 23:51, Diego Calleja wrote: > El Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:10:28 +0200, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > What exactly is the purpose of the 2.6.21 regressions list in the Wiki? > > AFAIK, submitting its contents to the list periodically CCing the developers, > like you did with your lists. > > If developers care to fix it or not or how much Linus cares about that list > before > releasing a new version is another question. I think it's useful because it > makes > those bugs look more important than the 1600 stored in the bugzilla...it won't > help to fix those 1600, but it attracts some attention over the "release > critical" > ones and encourages developers to fix them, even if not all of them get fixed. > > I don't think you can do many other things to get as much bugs fixed as > possible, > unless we reward bug fixers with weekends in the Playboy mansion. I think the > fundamental question here is: is there a way to make hackers follow and fix > _all_ > the bugs? I'd love it was possible, but AFAIK all the projects that have > tried to > be ultra-stable and have adopted a policy to fullfill such goal have fallen > behind > of competing projects that cared more about working in improving their > software.
Apart from this many bugs are found and get fixed in the process of developing new code, so the 'ultra stable' approach is not really practical. Greetings, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
