From: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Let's make a small change to the process
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 22:44:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d8e3fd304102613447c0156b2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041026203644.GD2307@redhat.com>
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:36:44 -0400, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:16:08PM +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
>
> > The .Y patchset contains only important security fix (all stuff you
> > think are important) and is weekly uploaded to kernel.org
> >
> > Doing that, people:
> > - can stop running "personal version of vanilla kernel
> > - don't need to wait till next Linus' release in order to have a
> > security bug fixed
> >
> > We, of course, need a maintainer for it,
> > maybe someone from OSDL (Randy?), maybe wli (he maintained his tree
> > for a long time), maybe Alan (that is already applying these kind of
> > fixes to his tree), maybe someone else... ?
>
> 2.6-ac seems to be filling this role right now.
>
Correct.
But as I user I tend to look at kernel.org and download "The latest
stable version of the Linux kernel is".
If the goal of -ac is to only include those fixes, why can't we rename
it in something more "intuitive" for the final users ?
Do you see what I mean ?
--
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-26 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-26 5:40 My thoughts on the "new development model" Chuck Ebbert
2004-10-26 10:44 ` Ed Tomlinson
2004-10-26 11:09 ` Massimo Cetra
2004-10-26 12:08 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-10-26 19:03 ` Mathieu Segaud
2004-10-26 20:16 ` Let's make a small change to the process Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-10-26 20:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-26 20:26 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-10-26 20:33 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-26 20:36 ` Dave Jones
2004-10-26 20:44 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi [this message]
2004-10-27 0:51 ` Jan Knutar
2004-10-26 20:48 ` John Richard Moser
2004-10-26 21:00 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-10-26 15:03 ` My thoughts on the "new development model" William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-26 21:19 ` Ed Tomlinson
2004-10-27 3:05 ` Marcos D. Marado Torres
2004-10-27 4:29 ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-27 5:13 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-10-27 5:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-27 6:04 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-10-27 6:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-27 6:50 ` Massimo Cetra
2004-10-27 6:56 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-11-16 16:43 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-27 13:48 ` John Richard Moser
2004-10-27 14:57 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-10-27 15:35 ` John Richard Moser
2004-10-27 19:46 ` Marcos D. Marado Torres
2004-10-27 21:08 ` John Richard Moser
2004-10-27 21:14 ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-27 17:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-27 13:38 ` John Richard Moser
2004-10-27 5:25 ` John Richard Moser
2004-10-28 6:46 ` michael
2004-10-28 7:13 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-28 7:28 ` Hacksaw
2004-10-29 21:30 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-10-28 7:57 ` Massimo Cetra
2004-10-28 16:14 ` John Richard Moser
2004-10-28 17:27 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-10-28 23:19 ` michael
2004-10-29 0:02 ` John Richard Moser
2004-10-27 4:26 ` Rik van Riel
2004-11-16 16:18 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-26 12:37 ` Barry K. Nathan
2004-10-26 14:40 ` Espen Fjellvær Olsen
2004-10-26 14:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-26 14:41 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-26 14:24 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-27 15:27 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-27 2:17 Let's make a small change to the process Chuck Ebbert
2004-10-27 15:05 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-27 20:38 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-27 19:50 Chuck Ebbert
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