On 12/01/2008, Bernd Walter <ticso_at_cicely12.cicely.de> wrote: > > Drawback: more work for the committers. > > Advantages: people feel rewarded for contributing patches, more > > hardware support... > > Yes and others with fine running hardware feel unsure about it. > The result are new reports or just other users that run away. > It is up to the commiter to get the balance of things that likely > don't break other HW and those that are risky and need further > verification. > If it is considered to risky the commiter has to find others to test. > See the list for patches, which are published for public testing. > This happens for exactly the purpose that the commiter thinks it has > some risky nature. I thought that was the whole point of CURRENT/BETA/RC? You can either hope that the committer will eventually find someone with same/similar hardware and that they're willing to experiment with it (although, why would anyone try running something that is considered risky on a production system is beyond me), *or* you can force everyone ot test it (given they have the right hardware) and push it into CURRENT or the next BETA where people expect to have glitches in... IgorReceived on Sat Jan 12 2008 - 09:16:31 UTC
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