Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932089AbVJ3Vc2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:32:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932105AbVJ3Vc2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:32:28 -0500 Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:10377 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932089AbVJ3Vc2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:32:28 -0500 Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:32:21 -0500 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: Andi Kleen Cc: Linus Torvalds , Tony Luck , Paolo Ciarrocchi , linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: New (now current development process) Message-ID: <20051030213221.GA28020@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Ts'o , 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/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1111 Lines: 24 On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:29:28AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Please don't. Even the two weeks are too short IMHO, because it is > hard to digest so much code in such a short time and also it is not > always easy for maintainers to hit such short time windows for sending > patches. > > > 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) I thought Andrew was accepting patches targeted at 2.6.n+1 into the -mm tree during the freeze periods, yes? If so, why would it be a case of "nothing much happens"? Nothing much might be happening in Linus's git tree, but that doesn't that they can't be happening in Andrew's -mm patchsets.... - Ted - 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/