Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:54:15 +0100 | From | Joerg Roedel <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc8 |
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:40:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, David Miller wrote: > > > From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> > > Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:29:06 +0000 > > > > > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 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. > > > > > > Which would perhaps mean that the merge window is open during LCA, which will > > > be inconvenient for some people. On the other hand, it might put the culprits > > > where you can lay your hands on them. > > > > That happened in Melbourne and it wasn't pleasant. Instead > > of enjoying talks at the conference some of us were stressing > > out on our laptops dealing with our merges instead. > > Yes. I definitely want to close the 29 merge window before LCA. In fact, I > want to close it far enough before that we can fix up any worst issues. > > Which does argue for opening it up during the holidays, I guess.
You can do a release around 29th/30th December. This gives the people who are on vacation until the new year still a week for merging stuff and the merge window closes 4-5 days before people are leaving for LCA.
Joerg
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