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I've got a suggestion to speed up the 2.3 patch cycle.
We can still keep the benevolent dictator model (thanks Linus!).
What we need to do is speed up the patch testing cycle. This is now =
being done thru the maillist.
Could we put together a web-site that allowed users to vote good/bad on =
patches against Linux releases? Users would test a patch against a =
specific release and then post OK or BAD/WHY on the web site.
This way, users could determine their own level of need/risk in testing =
patches. And, Linus could use the statistics to determine when to =
include a patch in the development kernel (same would be true of the =
stable kernel too). Anybody could go the web site and look at the stats =
for any patch to determine.
This way, the anal retentives could say "I am not dowloading a patch =
until it is 100% safe), the daring would test any patch anyway, and the =
rest of us would pick some point between.
This would put virtually no load on Linus (somebody else would manage =
the web-site --pretty minimial once it's setup).
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