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SubjectRe: [stable] [Stable-review] Future of the -longterm kernel releases (i.e. how we pick them).
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Jeremiah Foster wrote:

>> Do they need help from the community
>> instead to help define, implement, and maintain this for them?
>
> I think the answer is yes.
>

to expand on this a bit.

it's a lot easier to look at changelogs and see if a -stable or -longterm
update is relavent to your systems than it is to watch the flood of
merges to the latest kerenl and then figure out how to backport them. BUt
people who start up just compiling their own kernels frequently become
testers, if not contributers to the kernel. If everyone only runs the
distro kernels, then the upstream kernel quality will suffer because
nobody is testing it.

people running -longterm kernels on their productionsystems will not be
testing the llatest -rc kernel on those systems, but they are likely to be
more interested in watching and testng new kernel releases (at least on
lab machines) than people who just wait for things to be backported to the
distro kernel.

David Lang



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