From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261258AbVAGLPN (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 06:15:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261341AbVAGLPN (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 06:15:13 -0500 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:2747 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261258AbVAGLPJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 06:15:09 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:15:08 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Nicolas Mailhot Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, debian-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 Message-ID: <20050107111508.GA6667@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Nicolas Mailhot , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, debian-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1105096053.5444.11.camel@ulysse.olympe.o2t> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1105096053.5444.11.camel@ulysse.olympe.o2t> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:07:33PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Hi all, > > Since 2.6 is turning into a continuous release, how about just taking > the last 2.6 release every six months and backport security fixes to it > for the next half year ? Half a year is far too long because hardware is changing to fast for that. Three month sounds like a much better idea. The real problem is that this is a really time-consuming issue, so there need to be people actually commited to doing this kind of thing. Andres Salomon from the Debian Kernel maintaince team has been thinking about such a bugfix tree, but he's worried about having the time to actually get the work done - and we know what we're talking about as we're trying to keep a properly fixed 2.6.8 tree for Debian sarge.