Messages in this thread | | | From | Florian Weimer <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel | Date | Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:52:08 +0100 |
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* Matthias Andree:
> Basically, no-one should have permission to touch any core parts, except > for fixes, until 2.7. Yes, that means going back to older models. Yes, > that means that the discussions will start all over. And yes, that means > that the cool stuff has to wait. Solution: release more often.
Would this alone change much? I think what we really want is that our favorite branch (whatever it is) gets critical fixes forever (well, maybe one or two years, but this is forever). This is a bit unrealistic because everyone has a slightly different branchpoint. Releasing more often doesn't change that, really.
In the security area, I think there is enough experience out there to collect data which would help each local branch maintainer to install the relevant fixes. But for general development, this seems to be infeasible, unless you focus your software architecture on this purpose (which is probably a terrible idea to do for kernel development). - 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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