On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 20:52:46 -0800 (PST) Chuck Wolber wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 08:30:25PM -0800, Chuck Wolber wrote:
> > >
> > > Please correct me if I'm wrong here, but aren't we supposed to stop doing
> > > this for the 2.6.14 release now that 2.6.15 is out?
> >
> > I don't see a problems with doing additional stable releases for any
> > kernel, I just wouldn't commit to supporting any specific number of
> > releases. Basically if people send enough patches to warrant a
> > review/release there is obviously some interest. What is the harm?
>
> The harm is that stable release patches will eventually start being
> maintained and we'll have to add another stable release "dot" to the end
> of the growing width of the release version moniker. This stable branch
> was meant only for "one-off" fixes to a stable release, not for adding
> fixes upon fixes upon fixes that eventually turn into features that have
> to be maintained. A new stable release means we change our focus to it and
> ignore the old stable release.
It's a 6-month sliding window for stable releases IIRC.
Maybe <[email protected]> can add something like that to
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt>.
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~Randy
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