Re: starting with 2.7

[Christoph Hellwig]

[wrong cc list last time]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:15:08AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.
> 
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