Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Oct 2004 22:26:40 +0200 | From | Paolo Ciarrocchi <> | Subject | Re: Let's make a small change to the process |
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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:22:24 -0700, William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:16:08PM +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > > > > despite I know you are all bored with the " I know how to improve the > > process" email but I want to share with you this idea .-) > > Both Andrew and Linus are doing an impressive job so I really don't > > think we need to change the way they are working. > > What I'm suggesting is start offering 2.6.X:Y kernel, you did for > > 2.6.8.1 so... > > The .Y patchset contains only important security fix (all stuff you > > think are important) and is weekly uploaded to kernel.org > > Doing that, people: > > - can stop running "personal version of vanilla kernel > > - don't need to wait till next Linus' release in order to have a > > security bug fixed > > We, of course, need a maintainer for it, > > maybe someone from OSDL (Randy?), maybe wli (he maintained his tree > > for a long time), maybe Alan (that is already applying these kind of > > fixes to his tree), maybe someone else... ? > > Sounds reasonable ? > > Not normally the first thing I'd volunteer for. I probably won't at > all unless demand comes down from on high.
Well, I wrote your name because you are a great developer but I understand you prefer doing something else ;)
What about just the *idea* ?
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