Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757236AbYLLHy0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:54:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750870AbYLLHyS (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:54:18 -0500 Received: from 8bytes.org ([88.198.83.132]:51305 "EHLO 8bytes.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750795AbYLLHyS (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:54:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:54:15 +0100 From: Joerg Roedel To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Miller , dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc8 Message-ID: <20081212075414.GF24323@8bytes.org> References: <24401.1229009346@redhat.com> <20081211.191949.05090709.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1591 Lines: 40 On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:40:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, David Miller wrote: > > > From: David Howells > > Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:29:06 +0000 > > > > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > > (a) just make the -rc's go on a few more weeks, and do 2.6.28 after xmas > > > > > > > > I like this, because alledgely people are debugging things, and we'd > > > > get a more stable 2.6.28. > > > > > > Which would perhaps mean that the merge window is open during LCA, which will > > > be inconvenient for some people. On the other hand, it might put the culprits > > > where you can lay your hands on them. > > > > That happened in Melbourne and it wasn't pleasant. Instead > > of enjoying talks at the conference some of us were stressing > > out on our laptops dealing with our merges instead. > > Yes. I definitely want to close the 29 merge window before LCA. In fact, I > want to close it far enough before that we can fix up any worst issues. > > Which does argue for opening it up during the holidays, I guess. You can do a release around 29th/30th December. This gives the people who are on vacation until the new year still a week for merging stuff and the merge window closes 4-5 days before people are leaving for LCA. Joerg -- 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/