From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761674AbXGPVfR (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:35:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763825AbXGPVev (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:34:51 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.178]:8745 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763101AbXGPVes (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:34:48 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=W0fwwAx92lDq9q16tYqEKr9Z5TaZSXFcLhXikOGiXypGHjKlWi/f1rD4eNx5ZxLDw+YE+Tw1hLdIITfSAAo6APyyoUWC48RFwRAw4ckDkA2A+xhJZ4f1mWcZ3w4/AWPuCrXxOqjtf7a0myfwlb6WJcy2crx6xRmbTnNPExO+beQ= Message-ID: <6bffcb0e0707161434n8f1873cpd8c795292097bf1f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:34:47 +0200 From: "Michal Piotrowski" To: "Paolo Ciarrocchi" Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Development Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30707161404u49108231kae05aa80180a8857@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4d8e3fd30707161404u49108231kae05aa80180a8857@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Paolo, On 16/07/07, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > Hi all, > I'm the author of the document "Introduction to Linux Kernel > Development Process" hosted at > http://linux.tar.bz/articles/2.6-development_process. > Part of the document has been included in Documentation/HOWTO > > I was reading both the documents while I started, again, to think > about how to improve the quality of the vanilla kernels. > > Here are a few line of the document I wrote: > > ---8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<--- > --- 2.6.x kernels --- > > 2.6.x kernels are maintained by Linus Torvalds, > it's development is as follow: > - As soon a new kernel is released a two weeks windows is open, during > this period of time maintainers can submit big diffs to Linus, usually > the patched sited in -mm kernels for a few weeks. > Preferred way to submit big changes is using GIT > (more information about GIT at http://git.or.cz/ and > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html). > - After two weeks a -rc1 kernel is released and now is possible to > push only patches that do not include new functionalities that could > affect the stability of the whole kernel. Please note that a whole > new driver (or filesystem) might be accepted > after -rc1 because there is no risk of causing regressions with > such a change > - A new -rc is released whenever Linus deems the current git > (the kernel's source management) tree to be in a reasonably sane state > adequate for testing. The goal is to release a new -rc kernel every week. > - Process continues until the kernel is considered "ready", the > process should last around 6 weeks ( 6 kernels per year should be > released) an usually includes 4/5 rc releases. > ---8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<--- > > The sentence "Process continues until the kernel is considered "ready" > " should probably be changed in order to reflect the usage of the > "regression list" that Adrian and then Michal were used to maintain. > > Is there a "stable" place were users can read/comment/modify the list? This address should be widely known ;) http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions > Wasn't Google interested in employee a person to take care of > regression/bug report? (Yes, if there is an open position I would be > interested in applying ;-). > > Thanks! > > Regards, > -- > Paolo Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/