Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263081AbVCDUls (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:41:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263080AbVCDUdJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:33:09 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:52619 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263093AbVCDU04 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:26:56 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:28:09 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Nicolas Pitre cc: Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe , tglx@linutronix.de, lkml Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <422751C1.7030607@pobox.com> <20050303181122.GB12103@kroah.com> <20050303151752.00527ae7.akpm@osdl.org> <20050303234523.GS8880@opteron.random> <20050303160330.5db86db7.akpm@osdl.org> <20050304025746.GD26085@tolot.miese-zwerge.org> <20050303213005.59a30ae6.akpm@osdl.org> <1109924470.4032.105.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <20050304005450.05a2bd0c.akpm@osdl.org> <20050304091612.GG14764@suse.de> <20050304012154.619948d7.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1377 Lines: 31 On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > It might still be worth a try, especially since so many people are > convinced this is the way to go (your fault or not is not the point). Making releases is actually a fair bit of work. Not the script itself, but just deciding and trying to synchronize. The fatc that people won't really appreciate it anyway, and just complain about "that's not stable anyway" just makes me even less interested. The undeniable _fact_ in this discussion is that we're merging a lot of patches - which is good, because that's how we keep 2.6.x relevant, and not just a dead branch. And that is also what makes it fundamentally different from 2.4.x, and I think a lot of people are just ignoring that fact. If people want a stable branch, they have to freeze their own thing. I and Andrew do a lot of work to keep 2.6.x releases high-quality, and I think we've been very successful in it too. The _whining_ from people who don't realize that we can't just stop running (because if we did, quality would go _down_ when we're then overwhelmed afterwards) is really quite grating, though. Linus - 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/