Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:22:24 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Let's make a small change to the process
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:16:08PM +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> 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 ?

Not normally the first thing I'd volunteer for. I probably won't at
all unless demand comes down from on high.

-- wli
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