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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
	marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: Some thoughts about stable kernel development
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 11:26:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031109112604.613d385d.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3u15de669.fsf@defiant.pm.waw.pl>

Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> wrote:
>
> There is a problem that a development cycle (time between stable
>  = non-pre/rc versions) is long. Imagine a situation when we are at
>  some pre-3 stage, the kernel tree is full of problems which must be
>  resolved before the final release, and some serious security-class
>  bug has been found.

Well yes.  Two days after 2.4.20 was released we discovered a
data-corrupting bug in ext3.  I had no means of delivering a fix for that
apart from sticking a bunch of patches on my web page and making a lot of
noise about it.

So there is a case for a "2.4.20-post1" release to address such things.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-09 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-09 18:41 Krzysztof Halasa
2003-11-09 19:05 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-11-12 15:05   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-11-09 19:06 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2003-11-12 15:07   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-11-12 16:04     ` Stefan Smietanowski
2003-11-12 16:51       ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-11-13  7:33         ` Stefan Smietanowski
2003-11-13 19:55           ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-11-09 19:26 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-11-09 20:34   ` Alan Cox
2003-11-09 20:41   ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-11-09 19:29 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-11-12 15:01   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-11-09 19:50 ` John Bradford
2003-11-09 23:49   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-11-10  8:53     ` John Bradford
2003-11-09 23:54   ` Rob Landley
2003-11-10  8:50     ` John Bradford
2003-11-11  7:47       ` Ryan Anderson
2003-11-11  8:19       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-11-11  8:53         ` John Bradford
2003-11-10 10:58 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-11-12 14:48   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-11-10 13:35 ` jlnance
2003-11-12 14:43   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-11-10 16:54 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-11-12 14:40   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-11-09 21:53 Matt

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