On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 08:45:19AM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 13:46 +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:50:27PM +0200, Claus Herwig wrote:
> > > Hello,
> >
> <snip>
> > this is the last stable version, which had extensive
> > code review and testing .. unfortunately the community
> > is not willing to sponsor a similar review and testing
> > for a more recent kernel (e.g. 2.6.27.x) so for the
> > forseeable future, it will stay the 'last stable' release
> >
> <snip>
> > > Why is it called experimental?
> >
> > everything without a code review and extensive testing is
> > called "development" or "experimental", everything known to
> > be missing some features or functionality is labeled
> > "experimental" ... I don't think that those labels keep
> > folks from running it in production very similar to the
> > debian releases ...
> <snip>
> I'm afraid we can't help with code review but what can we do to help
> with testing? We are heavily using 2.6.28 and 2.6.29. Thanks - John
http://linux-vserver.org/Feature_Matrix
all the lines with a 'yes' in the '2.3' column will need
to be tested (some of them are easy to test, others involve
testing in different (corner) cases or on various file-
systems/architectures/etc)
best,
Herbert
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Received on Tue Aug 11 15:04:38 2009