Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"

[Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 at 07:28:41 -0700  William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 06:44:46AM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
>> To my mind this just points out the need for a bug fix branch.   e.g. a
>> branch containing just bug/security fixes against the current stable
>> kernel.  It might also be worth keeping the branch active for the n-1
>> stable kernel too.
>> PS.  we could call this the Bug/Security or bs kernels.
>
> This has been very explicitly encouraged numerous times and no one has
> taken up the task. Someone actually doing something about this for once
> may be helpful to quell the worries of people such as we're hearing from.


  I'm running a kernel I call 2.6.9.1 right now, but I have no clue how to
distribute it.  How do you get an account on kernel.org?


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--Chuck Ebbert  26-Oct-04  11:52:08