Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750854AbVJ2TvW (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:51:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750852AbVJ2TvW (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:51:22 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:17166 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750786AbVJ2TvW (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:51:22 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 20:51:15 +0100 From: Russell King To: Tony Luck Cc: Paolo Ciarrocchi , linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: New (now current development process) Message-ID: <20051029195115.GD14039@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Tony Luck , Paolo Ciarrocchi , linux kernel mailing list References: <4d8e3fd30510291026x611aa715pc1a153e706e70bc2@mail.gmail.com> <12c511ca0510291157u5557b6b1x85a47311f0e16436@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <12c511ca0510291157u5557b6b1x85a47311f0e16436@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1355 Lines: 30 On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 11:57:30AM -0700, Tony Luck wrote: > > - Process continues until the kernel is considered "ready", the > > process should last three months ( 4 kernels per yeard should be > > released). > IIRC the goal was to make a release in around 8 weeks (which would > be closer to six per year). But you have the important part, which is > that Linus doesn't make the release until it is "ready". 2.6.13 was > released on August 28th, and 2.6.14 on October 27th ... so we > appear to have hit the goal this time through. However, three months is _far_ too long. Look at what is happening post-2.6.14? There's loads of really huge changes going in which were backed up over the last two months. Continuing like this will just push the release of each kernel further and further out as there's more stuff merged during the mayhem than can possibly be properly reviewed and tested. Shorter release cycles means that there's less mayhem, which in turn means more time to review. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - 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/