Re: new dev model (was Re: Default cache_hot_time value back to 10ms)

[Martin J. Bligh]

>> it is also correct that the pile of patches in the -mm tree mask the QA
>> effects of testing done on -mm, so testing -BK separately is just as
>> important at this stage.
> 
> The simple fact is that -mm doesn't receive _nearly_ the amount of testing that a 2.6.x -BK snapshot does, which in turn doesn't receive _nearly_ the amount of testing that a 2.6.x-rc release gets.

Not sure that's true. Personally I test all -mm releases, and not -bk 
snapshots ... I've heard similar from other people.

If everyone pushed their stuff through -mm, and it sat there for a few
days before going upstream, we'd get a much better opportunity to test.

M.

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