Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:12:47 -0800 | From | Mike Travis <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc8 |
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Theodore Tso wrote: > 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
I'll second (or third?) this motion... ;-)
Thanks, Mike
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