Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:12:41 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: ak@suse.de, torvalds@osdl.org, tony.luck@gmail.com,
       paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New (now current development process)
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Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:29:28AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 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.)

The freezes are for fixing bugs, especially recent regressions.  There's no
shortage of them, you know.

I you can think of a better way to get kernel developers off their butts
and actually fixing bugs, I'm all ears.
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