Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:12:41 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: New (now current development process) |
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Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:29:28AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes: > > > I don't think anybody has been really unhappy with this approach? Hmm? > > > > The long freeze periods were nothing much happens are painful. It > > would be better to have some more overlap of merging and stabilizing > > (stable does that already kind of, but not enough) > > Violently agree. I find the long freeze periods painful and very very > very boring, to the point of looking for other stuff to do (such as > cleaning up bits of the kernel and queuing mega-patches for the next > round of merging.)
The freezes are for fixing bugs, especially recent regressions. There's no shortage of them, you know.
I you can think of a better way to get kernel developers off their butts and actually fixing bugs, I'm all ears. - 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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