Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932707AbVJ2Wha (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:37:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932709AbVJ2Wha (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:37:30 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:11535 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932707AbVJ2Wha (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:37:30 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:37:24 +0100 From: Russell King To: Andi Kleen Cc: Linus Torvalds , Tony Luck , Paolo Ciarrocchi , linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: New (now current development process) Message-ID: <20051029223723.GJ14039@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , Tony Luck , Paolo Ciarrocchi , linux kernel mailing list References: <4d8e3fd30510291026x611aa715pc1a153e706e70bc2@mail.gmail.com> <12c511ca0510291157u5557b6b1x85a47311f0e16436@mail.gmail.com> <20051029195115.GD14039@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 962 Lines: 22 On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:29:28AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Linus Torvalds writes: > > I don't think anybody has been really unhappy with this approach? Hmm? > > The long freeze periods were nothing much happens are painful. It > would be better to have some more overlap of merging and stabilizing > (stable does that already kind of, but not enough) Violently agree. I find the long freeze periods painful and very very very boring, to the point of looking for other stuff to do (such as cleaning up bits of the kernel and queuing mega-patches for the next round of merging.) -- 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/