Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Oct 2004 15:21:27 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: Default cache_hot_time value back to 10ms |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > >>Any idea when 2.6.9 will be coming out? > > > Before -mm hits 1000 patches, I hope. > > 2.6.8 wasn't really super-stable and our main tool for getting the quality > is to stretch the release times, give us time to shake things out. The > release time is largely driven by perceptions of current stability, bug > report rates, etc. > > A current guess would be -rc4 later this week, 2.6.9 late next week. We'll > see. > > One way of advancing that is to get down and work on bugs in current -linus > tree, yes? > > If this still doesn't seem to be working out and if 2.6.9 isn't as good as > we'd like I'll consider shutting down -mm completely once we hit -rc2 so > people have nothing else to do apart from fix bugs in, and test -linus. > We'll see. >
OK thanks for the explanation.
Any thoughts about making -rc's into -pre's, and doing real -rc's? It would have caught the NFS bug that made 2.6.8.1, and probably the cd burning problems... Or is Linus' patching finger just too itchy? - 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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