From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Organization: Boundaries Unlimited
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 21:22:13 -0600
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On Monday 05 December 2005 18:54, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> > Hint:  Any plan in a volunteer community that starts with "$BUSY_PEOPLE
> > should do $THIS" fails.  Any plan that starts with "I could do $THIS" at
> > least has a chance.
>
> Actually, they are already maintaining 2.6.x.y, (x => 11, 12, ...) I was
> trying to get them to only maintain 2.6.x.y (x => 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, 25,
> ...)

That's still "trying to get them" rather than "I could"...

> So maybe it would actually be easier.  But I'm sure they wouldn't be
> fooled, since the longer you maintain a fork, the harder it becomes.

And the number exponentially increases (2.6.x+1.y, 2.6.x+2.y, all at the same 
time...)

No, I pestered them a while back about possibly doing a 2.6.x.y+1 to flush 
their patch queue before doing a 2.6.x+1.1, and they seem more receptive to 
the idea now.  But then backporting 2.6.x+1.y to 2.6.x becomes your job...

Rob
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