Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262057AbVADAdP (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 19:33:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262007AbVADA3X (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 19:29:23 -0500 Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:63392 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262048AbVADA2R (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 19:28:17 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 19:24:52 -0500 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: Bill Davidsen , Adrian Bunk , Diego Calleja , Willy Tarreau , wli@holomorphy.com, aebr@win.tue.nl, solt2@dns.toxicfilms.tv, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 Message-ID: <20050104002452.GA8045@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Ts'o , Bill Davidsen , Adrian Bunk , Diego Calleja , Willy Tarreau , wli@holomorphy.com, aebr@win.tue.nl, solt2@dns.toxicfilms.tv, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050103134727.GA2980@stusta.de> <20050103183621.GA2885@thunk.org> <20050103185927.C3442@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050103185927.C3442@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1226 Lines: 24 On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 06:59:27PM +0000, Russell King wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:36:21PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > This is the model that we used with the > > 2.3.x series, where the time between releases was often quite short. > > That worked fairly well, but we stopped doing it when the introduction > > of BitKeeper eliminated the developer synch-up problem. But perhaps > > we've gone too far between 2.6.x releases, and should shorten the time > > in order to force more testing. > > It is also the model we used until OLS this year - there was a 2.6 > release about once a month prior to OLS. Post OLS, it's now once > every three months or there abouts, which, IMO is far too long. I was thinking more about every week or two (ok, two releases in a day like we used to do in the 2.3 days was probably too freequent :-), but sure, even going to a once-a-month release cycle would be better than the current 3 months between 2.6.x releases. - Ted - 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/