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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 22:16:08 +0200
From: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
       "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Let's make a small change to the process
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Hi all,
despite I know you are all bored with the " I know how to improve the
process" email but I want to share with you this idea .-)

Both Andrew and Linus are doing an impressive job so I really don't
think we need to change the way they are working.

What I'm suggesting is start offering 2.6.X:Y kernel, you did for 2.6.8.1 so...

The .Y patchset contains only important security fix (all stuff you
think are important) and is weekly uploaded to kernel.org

Doing that, people:
-  can stop running "personal version of vanilla kernel
-  don't need to wait till next Linus' release in order to have a
security bug fixed

We, of course, need a maintainer for it,
maybe someone from OSDL (Randy?), maybe wli (he maintained his tree
for a long time), maybe Alan (that is already applying these kind of
fixes to his tree), maybe someone else... ?

Sounds reasonable ?

-- 
Paolo
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