From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263753AbTJCPpM (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2003 11:45:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263764AbTJCPpM (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2003 11:45:12 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:30084 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263753AbTJCPpI (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2003 11:45:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 08:36:40 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: piggin@cyberone.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, willy@debian.org Subject: Re: must-fix list reconciliation Message-Id: <20031003083640.61dcf517.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20031003113437.GL24824@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <3F7D3F37.1060005@cyberone.com.au> <20031003113437.GL24824@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: +5V?h'hZQPB9kW Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:34:37 +0100 Matthew Wilcox wrote: | On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 07:19:51PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: | > Hi everyone, | > As you might or might not know, the must-fix / should-fix lists have been | > inadvertently forked. We are merging them again, so please don't update | > the wiki until we have worked out what to do with them. This should be a | > day or two at most. | > | > I had the idea that maybe we could put them into the source tree, and | > encourage people to keep them up to date by making them become criteria | > for the feature and code freeze. Comments? | | I'm a little disappointed that after I spent time converting them into | the wiki form, you're now proposing abandoning them again. This seems | like a retrograde step. | | What I'd be more interested in doing is combining the must- and should- | fix lists. As a first pass, just put all the must-fix items on the | should-fix list at pri 4. One of the things I did was delete the things | that appeared on both lists. This would obviously be easier if they | were in one list ;-) Agreed on that. I think the location is not the problem (whether source tree or wiki), it's just an extra step to keep them updated, and having no owner (or _many_ owners) often doesn't work. Is one of you (or the two of you) willing to be the owner/editor? -- ~Randy