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If you have 100000 servers it's in your interest to test HEAD on 100 of them to be able to catch and bugs before they hit a release. That's how open-source shou
by lillecarl 4y ago
If you have 100000 servers it's in your interest to test HEAD on 100 of them to be able to catch and bugs before they hit a release. That's how open-source should work!
- Cyph0n 4y agoWhy not run 1-2 releases behind and test/qualify a later release? A commenter below gave a good example of a company that would need to run a bleeding edge kernel (Red Hat). The vast majority of companies would never need to do that though.
- fiedzia 4y ago> Why not run 1-2 releases behind and test/qualify a later release? This may work for most people, but not all. It's easier to get things fixed while developers still work on something, than weeks/months later. Also if you have not most-popular hardware/software configuration, testing done by others isn't necessarily sufficient for you.
- sph 4y agoMaybe your company needs that super duper new feature that's on master. Or you're Google scale and that 0.5% improvement in IO throughput would save you millions a year. You wouldn't want to wait until it hits the stable branch if possible.