From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422790AbXCBCbt (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:31:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422792AbXCBCbt (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:31:49 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:35874 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422790AbXCBCbs (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:31:48 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 18:31:43 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "Ryan Hope" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: -mm release schedule? Message-Id: <20070301183143.812b27a5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <48f7fe350703010634o17a35dd0p31a61cceefea27f6@mail.gmail.com> References: <48f7fe350703010634o17a35dd0p31a61cceefea27f6@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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 Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:34:42 -0500 "Ryan Hope" wrote: > I didn't really know of a better place to ask this question, bus is > there any rhyme or reason to when -mm kernels are released? Not really. I basically release them as quickly as I can, given that it takes pretty much a full day to get a release compiling and pretending to boot on various machines and configs. I tend not to bother doing -mm releases during the two-week merge window because a) I'm busy sending stuff and b) the upstream tree is changing too fast and c) I'm busy watching people merrily merge things into mainline which I've never seen before. > Is there a > -git repo that I can get work in progress for -mm? Nope. Because it's almost never in a compileable state. I don't see a lot of point in publishing a known-broken tree - all people can do is to send me little fixes for stuff which I'll quickly fix myself anyway. I should upload snapshots more regularly to ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/ but there always seems to be a reason not to.