Re: overview on www.kernel.org subtly broken ...

Re: overview on www.kernel.org subtly broken ...

[Herbert Poetzl]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 02:14:12PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >the script which does the overview on the
> >main page (http://www.kernel.org) is subtly
> >broken in that way that it kind-of falls
> >back to a previous snapshot when the latest
> >prepatch is updated, it will then take a
> >'new' snapshot release to come back to normal
> >(as it is right now)
> >
> >best,
> >Herbert
> 
> It's not broken.

hmm ... had to dig that out, as the #kernelnebies 
irc log search is 'not' broken either ...

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The latest prepatch for the stable Linux kernel tree is:  2.6.15-rc7     2005-12-25
The latest snapshot for the stable Linux kernel tree is:  2.6.14-git14   2005-11-11

that was on the 25th of December, around 19:30

note that at this time the latest snapshot actually
was patch-2.6.15-rc6-git4 and not 2.6.14-git14 as 
the script wanted to make us believe (which is the
last 2.6.14-git)

so, as we now 'know' that this is intentional, please
just explain (to me and other confused folks) what
the intentions behind that actually are.

TIA,
Herbert

> 	-hpa