Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Nov 2003 11:26:04 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Some thoughts about stable kernel development |
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Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> wrote: > > There is a problem that a development cycle (time between stable > = non-pre/rc versions) is long. Imagine a situation when we are at > some pre-3 stage, the kernel tree is full of problems which must be > resolved before the final release, and some serious security-class > bug has been found.
Well yes. Two days after 2.4.20 was released we discovered a data-corrupting bug in ext3. I had no means of delivering a fix for that apart from sticking a bunch of patches on my web page and making a lot of noise about it.
So there is a case for a "2.4.20-post1" release to address such things. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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