Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262680AbUJ0UlK (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:41:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262647AbUJ0Ujh (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:39:37 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:26266 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262703AbUJ0UgJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:36:09 -0400 Message-ID: <41800750.1050601@tmr.com> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:38:40 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , William Lee Irwin III , Dave Jones Subject: Re: Let's make a small change to the process References: <200410262220_MC3-1-8D36-77F@compuserve.com><200410262220_MC3-1-8D36-77F@compuserve.com> <1098889516.4302.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1098889516.4302.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1223 Lines: 30 Alan Cox wrote: > On Mer, 2004-10-27 at 03:17, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > >>>If the goal of -ac is to only include those fixes, why can't we rename >>>it in something more "intuitive" for the final users ? >>>Do you see what I mean ? >> >> AFAICT -ac is not supposed to be a complete collection of bugfixes. >> 2.6.9-ac3 was certainly missing a lot of them (haven't seen -ac4 yet.) > > > The goal of -ac is to contain the stuff I personally consider important. > A lot of the smaller bugfixes individually are fine but a 'complete set > of bugfixes' turns into a large change set and then needs an entire > validation and release cycle of its own. > > Each 2.6.10rc change I merged is on the basis of reward >> risk. Not to give you a swelled head, but at the moment -ac looks more stable than anything else widely available. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/