Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932392AbVLEMYK (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 07:24:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932393AbVLEMYK (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 07:24:10 -0500 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:43185 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932392AbVLEMYJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 07:24:09 -0500 From: Bernd Eckenfels To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel Organization: Private Site running Debian GNU/Linux In-Reply-To: <20051205114028.GD5148@marowsky-bree.de> X-Newsgroups: ka.lists.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.7.8-20050315 ("Scalpay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.13.4 (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:24:07 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 984 Lines: 25 In article <20051205114028.GD5148@marowsky-bree.de> you wrote: > As I said, please, go on maintaining a release for a longer period of > time. On the other hand: Since it is such a ugly big boring and complicated task, why do you still think it can be done by volunteers? (or why will commercial distributions have the power to pay for this in the long run) I think this is exactly the reason why it cannot be done in parallel by volunteers without support from all of the contributors. With an official stable trunk it attrackts more backports. It is clear where the security fixes must happen, etc. We used to have this back in the 2.4 days with longer release cycles. However I am not sure if that was better or worse. Gruss Bernd - 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/