Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946710AbWKJPQa (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:16:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946708AbWKJPQa (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:16:30 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:4101 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946710AbWKJPQa (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:16:30 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:15:55 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Jesper Juhl Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: A proposal; making 2.6.20 a bugfix only version. Message-ID: <20061110151555.GB7708@ucw.cz> References: <9a8748490611081409x6b4cc4b4lc52b91c7b7b237a6@mail.gmail.com> <1163024531.3138.406.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <9a8748490611081440u6ba6c541h1038ac1e530e2839@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9a8748490611081440u6ba6c541h1038ac1e530e2839@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 783 Lines: 24 Hi! > >but if you do this you just end up with a bigger > >backlog so that the > >next one will even be more unstable due to a extreme > >high change rate. > > > Only if people continue to work on new stuff during the > "bug fixing only" cycle. > If we manage to get everyone focused on bug fixing only > for the entire > cycle the backlog won't be growing (much). But neither you, nor andrew, nor linus has power to stop development like that... (nor would it be good idea) Pavel -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - 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/