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SubjectRe: Let's make a small change to the process
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* ?

--
Paolo
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