On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 14:42 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 1) Release maintainers need to avoid merging non-bugfixes. Lately, the > key penguins _have_ been doing their job here. This manifested in > 2.6.11-rc4, 2.6.11-rc5.
True, but the confidence of users in -rc is gone already. So testing happens when the "stable" release is out, but thats too late. > 2) This "flag day" when bugfixes-only mode starts needs to be completely > obvious to _scripts_ and really dumb people. Posting to LKML "with this > -rc, I am only taking serious bugfixes" doesn't cut it. There must be a > clear, consistent point where testing may begin. If you clearly seperate out the -rc process of the development tree then it is no question how dump scripts and people are. The -rc tree is untouchable for anything else than bugfixes. tglx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
