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SubjectRe: Rate of change
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:39:32PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:37:59PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:16:00PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > >
> > > 850 changesets and 3383 revisions since 2.6.9 was released,
> > > a little over 24 hours ago.
> > >
> > > That's pretty impressive.
> >
> > Given a lot of these are backlogs from folks being
> > conservative whilst we were in -rc, perhaps this is an
> > indication we need shorter -rc periods ?
>
>
> Actually, we need longer non-rc periods :)

Personally, I think both of you are right. One major kernel release a
month seemed to be about the right rate. Maybe a week and a half of
non-rc plus two and a half weeks of -rc would be the right kind of
balance?

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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