Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:28:20 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, torvalds@osdl.org, davem@davemloft.net,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Iau, 2005-03-03 at 23:17, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Ideally, the 2.6.x.y maintainer wouldn't need any particular kernel
> > development skills - it's just patchmonkeying the things which maintainers
> > send him.
> 
> I would disagree, and I suspect anyone else who has maintained a distro
> stable kernel would likewise. It needs one or more people who know who
> to ask about stuff, are careful, have a good grounding in bug spotting,
> races, common mistakes and know roughly how all the kernel works.
> Maintainers aren't very good at it in general and they don't see
> overlaps between areas very well.
> 

That is all inappropriate activity for a 2.6.x.y tree as it is being
proposed.

Am I right?  All we're proposing here is a tree which has small fixups for
reasonably serious problems.  Almost without exception it would consist of
backports.

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