Re: linux-next: first tree

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Wed Feb 20 2008 - 12:56:05 EST


On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:23:32 +1100 Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Hi Andy,
>
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:04:36 +0000 Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > As devout believers in testing things early we test -mm and -git releases
> > as they drop. I am keen that we are able to continue this with the -next
> > tree once it gets going. Having just pulled this tree its not obvious how
> > I would communicate which tree I had tested. I guess we could use the
> > SHA1 of the actual head used, but that really is cumbersome for the poor
> > people who have to check the results and actually report things to lkml.
>
> I hope I have addressed this issue by tagging each tree with its date
> i.e. todays was next-20080220.
>
> > Also will you be producing any tarballs for these releases? If so I
> > would say they would definatly need to be against some common base, like
> > against the nearest official tag "below".
>
> I hadn't considered tarballs, but I will give it some thought.

I'd like to see tarballs too, please...

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~Randy
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