Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261439AbUJZU3P (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:29:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261448AbUJZU1T (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:27:19 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.196]:21391 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261439AbUJZU0n (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:26:43 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=l5d1qV+6ZtJ2CE3TGUq5C9q6Pm5T+BysKj9H62pOwWxNJoZ4csazRrfqoVc9Fvt7moyhALhewkNsoYAlSTakNVC4JI/4sNbkIxJTkXzlA2dBIJwPmI0J/vx5ObS4YWzGAYYILsdJwOIGqtvhDeMEZw5Rze3t7JLPoWqpWXxwIn0= Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30410261326741a809@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 22:26:40 +0200 From: Paolo Ciarrocchi Reply-To: Paolo Ciarrocchi To: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: Let's make a small change to the process Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , "Randy.Dunlap" , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <20041026202224.GE15367@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200410260644.47307.edt@aei.ca> <00c201c4bb4c$56d1b8b0$e60a0a0a@guendalin> <4d8e3fd3041026050823d012dc@mail.gmail.com> <877jpdcnf5.fsf@barad-dur.crans.org> <4d8e3fd304102613165b2fb283@mail.gmail.com> <20041026202224.GE15367@holomorphy.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1597 Lines: 38 On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:22:24 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > 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. Well, I wrote your name because you are a great developer but I understand you prefer doing something else ;) What about just the *idea* ? -- Paolo - 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/