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    SubjectRe: RFD: Kernel release numbering
    On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 12:00:39PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
    > On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:43:53AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
    > > On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:23:39AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > > >
    > > > So what's the problem with this approach? It would seem to make everybody
    > > > happy: it would reduce my load, it would give people the alternate "2.6.x
    > > > base kernel plus fixes only" parallell track, and it would _not_ have the
    > > > testability issue (because I think a lot of people would be happy to test
    > > > that tree, and if it was always based on the last 2.6.x release, there
    > > > would be no issues.
    > > >
    > > > Anybody?
    > >
    > > Well, I'm one person who has said that this would be a very tough
    > > problem to solve. And hey, I like tough problems, so I'll volunteer to
    > > start this. If I burn out, I'll take the responsibility of finding
    > > someone else to take it over.
    >
    > Ooh, a sucker!

    Two of us even :)

    > Seriously, I think Linus's plan makes a lot of sense, as a scalable
    > way of maintaining a 2.6.x.y release strategy.

    I agree, and if Chris and I share the load, it might even make it a bit
    more robust in that we can cover for each other when one is traveling,
    etc.

    > The other thing which would probably be useful to maintain would be a
    > list of "known regressions" yet to be fixed in 2.6.x.y, and to address
    > the somewhat disturbing assertions that sometimes regressions "light
    > up bugzilla" at distro's like Fedora, but don't get reflected back up
    > to LKML. Maybe we could recruit some other sucker to maintain such a
    > list?

    That would be great, and any help from the distro bug-wranglers would be
    appreciated.

    thanks,

    greg k-h
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