From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263005AbVAFVDp (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:03:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261173AbVAFVAo (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:00:44 -0500 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:55467 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262997AbVAFUsP (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:48:15 -0500 Message-ID: <41DDA416.2010609@tmr.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:48:22 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paolo Ciarrocchi CC: "Theodore Ts'o" , 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 References: <20050103183621.GA2885@thunk.org><20050103134727.GA2980@stusta.de> <4d8e3fd30501060603247e955a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30501060603247e955a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > What's wrong in keeping the release management as is now plus > introducing a 2.6.X.Y series of kernels ? > > In short: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109882220123966&w=2 > > Best, > Paolo Ciarrocchi > That's essentially what I said in <41DB2BF3.2010103@tmr.com>, and the only response I got questioned my mention that Alan Cox didn't think the process was working well. I suggested a fixed and shorter release schedule as well as point releases, but point releases are the more improtant, I believe. I also said I didn't think it was going to change... -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me