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 > -- > John A. Sullivan III > Open Source Development Corporation > +1 207-985-7880 > jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com > > http://www.spiritualoutreach.com > Making Christianity intelligible to secular society