Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:28:41 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"
Message-ID: <20041026142841.GH17038@holomorphy.com>
References: <200410260142_MC3-1-8D2A-45C2@compuserve.com> <200410260644.47307.edt@aei.ca>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <200410260644.47307.edt@aei.ca>
Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 995
Lines: 22

On Tuesday 26 October 2004 01:40, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>>   Sure, the next release will (may?) fix these bugs, but it will
>> definitely add a whole set of new ones.

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 06:44:46AM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> To my mind this just points out the need for a bug fix branch.   e.g. a
> branch containing just bug/security fixes against the current stable
> kernel.  It might also be worth keeping the branch active for the n-1
> stable kernel too.
> PS.  we could call this the Bug/Security or bs kernels.

This has been very explicitly encouraged numerous times and no one has
taken up the task. Someone actually doing something about this for once
may be helpful to quell the worries of people such as we're hearing from.


-- wli
-
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/