[OT] Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:12:16 -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:

> On 07/20/2011 04:58 PM, Robert Spanjaard wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:12:43 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> 
>>> *LINUX FOUNDER* Linus Torvalds has said that he's delaying the release
>>> of Linux 3.0 due to the discovery of a bug.
[...]
>> 
>> While this may seem like a good idea at first thought, It also means
>> that a lot of bug_fixes_ get delayed this way.
> 
> Not necessarily, they could get committed during this bug commit. There
> is no policy that states it can't happen. As a matter of fact it would
> be counter productive to not test and commit those patches to the kernel
> as well if a bug is found while addressing this one. I don't even think
> it will delay the bug discovery phase in Fedora and Ubuntu at all
> either.

I'm talking about the bugs that are already fixed. Linus said that 3.0
would have "a lot of random fixes". Those fixes will not be released
until this single new bug is fixed.
Delaying a release until all known bugs are fixed makes sense with a new
project. On a running project like the kernel, delaying a release usually
means delaying bug fixes too.


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