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Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:53:11 -0400
From: Skip Ford <skip.ford@verizon.net>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: BK, deltas, snapshots and fate of -pre...
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Russell King wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 12:40:11AM -0400, Skip Ford wrote:
> > That's only 1 aspect.  The frustrating part is bug reports mailed to the
> > list getting a response of "oh, that's fixed in the latest bk tree."
> > 
> > Daily snapshots would be great.
> 
> We have hourly snapshots, thanks to the work David Woodhouse and
> Rik van Riel did at a moments notice.  Does this satisfy your
> concerns above?

It does as long as those hourly snapshots are the official kernel.  If
the snapshots are different than what's available at kernel.org then the
problem is still there.

We need to have more frequent releases so the current kernel is
available to everyone, including non-bk users.  It doesn't matter
to me what it's called (snapshots, -pre, regular releases 2.5.X).

-- 
Skip
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