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On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 09:52:34PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Greg didn't "elect" anyone, Adrian volunteered to maintain something > that had been dropped by the -stable developers and no one else was > going to maintain. Did you ever call for a maintainer list of volunteers? To me an official 2.6.16-stable in the hands of the only guy who proposed himself as maintainer, sounds worse than no stable tree at all. People won't know anymore if to run Greg's 2.6.18-stable or 2.6.16-stable. If a 2.6-real-stable tree has to happen because 2.6-stable is not really stable/trustable enough, then give it up with your 2.6.18-stable and start doing 2.7 and leave 2.6 in the hands of somebody else. An official kernel needs a critical mass to have a value, it's simply a wasted effort to open yet another official tree that will actually fragment the "production" userbase even more. If 2.6.18-stable is sustainable with the current model, with the distro folks being the only ones forking off a real-stable tree, then you should drop 2.6.16-stable. If instead it's 2.6.18-stable that is not good enough for production usage and people really needs 2.6.16-stable, you should open 2.7, and not fragment the userbase like this. I think it would be great to have the users choosing their preferred maintainer to end the era of maintainers being decided by other maintainers like you actually did. A simple website on kernel.org can achieve it, where users can registers for voting and the maintainers willing to maintain 2.6-stable can registers themself too. That's at least less random than the current status if what you said above is true and if 2.6.16-stable is meant to reach any critical mass. - 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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