Re: starting with 2.7

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Mon Jan 03 2005 - 14:21:33 EST


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.

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 06:59:27PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> 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?

Seconded.


-- wli
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