From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261766AbVACTAj (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:00:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261530AbVACTAG (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:00:06 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:10003 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261682AbVACS7q (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:59:46 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:59:27 +0000 From: Russell King To: "Theodore Ts'o" , Bill Davidsen , Adrian Bunk , Diego Calleja , Willy Tarreau , wli@holomorphy.com, aebr@win.tue.nl, solt2@dns.toxicfilms.tv, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 Message-ID: <20050103185927.C3442@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Ts'o , Bill Davidsen , Adrian Bunk , Diego Calleja , Willy Tarreau , wli@holomorphy.com, aebr@win.tue.nl, solt2@dns.toxicfilms.tv, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050103134727.GA2980@stusta.de> <20050103183621.GA2885@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20050103183621.GA2885@thunk.org>; from tytso@mit.edu on Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:36:21PM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:36:21PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > This is the model that we used with the > 2.3.x series, where the time between releases was often quite short. > That worked fairly well, but we stopped doing it when the introduction > of BitKeeper eliminated the developer synch-up problem. But perhaps > we've gone too far between 2.6.x releases, and should shorten the time > in order to force more testing. It is also the model we used until OLS this year - there was a 2.6 release about once a month prior to OLS. Post OLS, it's now once every three months or there abouts, which, IMO is far too long. I really liked the way pre-OLS 2.6 was working... it means I don't have to twiddle my fingers getting completely bored waiting for the next 2.6 release to happen. Can we return to that methodology please? -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core