Suggestion: Lengthen the review period for stable releases from 48 hours to 7 days.

Suggestion: Lengthen the review period for stable releases from 48 hours to 7 days.

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

Hello. I would like to suggest lengthening the review period for stable
releases from 48 hours to 7 days.
The rationale is that 48 hours is not enough for people to test those
stable releases and make sure there are no regressions for particular
workflows.
This is especially important for companies deploying those kernels in
production machines. Often those releases are on weekends as well
further limiting the ability to test.
It is of course possible to skip stable updates that have large numbers
of patches and only update once a month but I feel a longer testing
period will work best for everyone.
It is, of course, always possible to exempt urgent security releases
from the waiting period.

Thank you.
Hussam.

Re: Suggestion: Lengthen the review period for stable releases from 48 hours to 7 days.

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

On Sat, 2020-11-14 at 17:40 +0200, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote:
> Hello. I would like to suggest lengthening the review period for
> stable
> releases from 48 hours to 7 days.
> The rationale is that 48 hours is not enough for people to test those
> stable releases and make sure there are no regressions for particular
> workflows.
> This is especially important for companies deploying those kernels in
> production machines. Often those releases are on weekends as well
> further limiting the ability to test.
> It is of course possible to skip stable updates that have large
> numbers
> of patches and only update once a month but I feel a longer testing
> period will work best for everyone.
> It is, of course, always possible to exempt urgent security releases
> from the waiting period.
>
> Thank you.
> Hussam.
>

One more note. This is not a random internet rant. I actually do need
more than 48 hours to test new stable kernels and I believe others do
too.
Regards,
Hussam.

Re: Suggestion: Lengthen the review period for stable releases from 48 hours to 7 days.

[Pavel Machek]

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On Sat 2020-11-14 17:40:36, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote:
> Hello. I would like to suggest lengthening the review period for stable
> releases from 48 hours to 7 days.
> The rationale is that 48 hours is not enough for people to test those
> stable releases and make sure there are no regressions for particular
> workflows.

You should probably cc stable list and Greg with this.

And yes, I believe that would be good idea.

Plus the period is very often shorter than advertised, which might be
also good to fix.

Best regards,
								pavel

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