[BusyBox] pause for next release?

Matt Kraai kraai at alumni.carnegiemellon.edu
Tue May 8 08:36:17 UTC 2001


On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:08:07AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> Seems like whatever we do there will be a few bugs that will slip
> through anyway.
> 
> What about having a three branches, stable/testing/unstable, so the
> testing release could be feature frozen for as long as necessary to get
> it fixed before releasing, and it wouldnt completely stop new work.
> 
> The main reason against would be that if bugs get identified in testing
> but not fixed because we are all concentrating on unstable, and it would
> take a bit more ework to setup.

I think a regression testsuite would be a much better solution.
In conjunction with User Mode Linux, we could test nearly every
aspect of the system for breakage.  And we could then bug
contributors whose patches broke something.

Matt





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