Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:57:23 -0500 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc8 |
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:40:58AM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 05:04:39PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > (a) just make the -rc's go on a few more weeks, and do 2.6.28 after xmas > > > > I like this, because alledgely people are debugging things, and we'd > > get a more stable 2.6.28. > > > > I'll vote for a. An open merge window over the holidays possible results > in needless stresses for the developers at a time which some of them > want to use otherwise. Or if any merge introduces bad bugs and the > developers that can fix it are on xmax vacation we may end up with an > unusable upstream tree for a week or so. Same with merge conflicts. > So, I'd suggest to wait until everybody is back to work until opening > the merge window.
I'd vote for (a) as well, and hopefully folks who are really conscientious can do some integration testing of linux-next and can report problems there to make the merge window go more smoothly after the New Year's.
- Ted
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