[ANNOUNCE] Extended stable support for Linux 3.5 (linux-3.5.y-ext.z)

[ANNOUNCE] Extended stable support for Linux 3.5 (linux-3.5.y-ext.z)

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

As everyone may be aware, linux 3.5.y isn't anymore a supported stable
kernel tree. Also, it seems not many distributions picked 3.5 as a
kernel version for their releases, looks like due to timing. Anyway, as
Ubuntu is using it in its 12.10 release (codename "Quantal Quetzal"),
we (as in Ubuntu kernel maintainers) are going forward and announcing
that we will provide extended stable support for it. I'm the person
going to maintain this effort at first. This is a 3rd party effort from
us, it will be for now a fork of latest 3.5.7 stable release, maintained
on our infra-structure.

The tree providing the extended stable updates is located at
git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git, which is where we will
maintain the patches and releases of this extended support. The page at
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable describes the stucture
and other details. Worth to note is that we plan to provide this
extended support only until March 31st, 2014

I plan to do a similar workflow as to what is done today with current
stable releases. I'll send email notifications to everyone involved in
each patch when it's added to 3.5 queue, and post the patches for review
for each release cycle. Just versioning will be slightly different,
every version is planned to be tagged as v3.5.7-ext.<release number>,
ext meaning extended, 3.5.7 was the last stable kernel in 3.5 kernel and
should remain constant.

We welcome any feedback and contribution to this effort, and help in
reviewing or any request of patches to be added, keeping in mind that it
must follow the official upstream stable kernel rules as usual. Next
week I plan to post the first set of patches for review for a first
release.

thanks,
- Herton

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Extended stable support for Linux 3.5 (linux-3.5.y-ext.z)

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi Herton,

Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:

> I plan to do a similar workflow as to what is done today with current
> stable releases. I'll send email notifications to everyone involved in
> each patch when it's added to 3.5 queue, and post the patches for review
> for each release cycle. Just versioning will be slightly different,
> every version is planned to be tagged as v3.5.7-ext.<release number>,
> ext meaning extended, 3.5.7 was the last stable kernel in 3.5 kernel and
> should remain constant.

Thanks for your work.  Is there a reason not to work with Greg to
release these on kernel.org with increasing 3.5.8, 3.5.9, etc version
numbers?

Curious,
Jonathan

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Extended stable support for Linux 3.5 (linux-3.5.y-ext.z)

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 07:22:03AM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi Herton,
> 
> Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> 
> > I plan to do a similar workflow as to what is done today with current
> > stable releases. I'll send email notifications to everyone involved in
> > each patch when it's added to 3.5 queue, and post the patches for review
> > for each release cycle. Just versioning will be slightly different,
> > every version is planned to be tagged as v3.5.7-ext.<release number>,
> > ext meaning extended, 3.5.7 was the last stable kernel in 3.5 kernel and
> > should remain constant.
> 
> Thanks for your work.  Is there a reason not to work with Greg to
> release these on kernel.org with increasing 3.5.8, 3.5.9, etc version
> numbers?

We tried that before with 3.2 but were denied, and decided this time to
go with 3.5 in this way. Luckily Ben Hutchings stepped up and took 3.2,
and is doing an awesome job btw. But if something changed I'm open for
maintaining 3.5 along with other stable trees currently being maintained.

> 
> Curious,
> Jonathan
> 

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[]'s
Herton

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Extended stable support for Linux 3.5 (linux-3.5.y-ext.z)

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 12:15:04PM -0200, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> I plan to do a similar workflow as to what is done today with current
> stable releases. I'll send email notifications to everyone involved in
> each patch when it's added to 3.5 queue, and post the patches for review
> for each release cycle. Just versioning will be slightly different,
> every version is planned to be tagged as v3.5.7-ext.<release number>,
> ext meaning extended, 3.5.7 was the last stable kernel in 3.5 kernel and
> should remain constant.

Just a note, the tagging probaly will be different from what I said here,
in the format v3.5.7u<release number>, simpler format. Anything changing
I'll keep updated in future announcements while releasing the patches.

-- 
[]'s
Herton