Re: New (now current development process)

[Russell King]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:12:41AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:29:28AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > > I don't think anybody has been really unhappy with this approach? Hmm?
> > > 
> > > The long freeze periods were nothing much happens are painful. It
> > > would be better to have some more overlap of merging and stabilizing
> > > (stable does that already kind of, but not enough)
> > 
> > Violently agree.  I find the long freeze periods painful and very very
> > very boring, to the point of looking for other stuff to do (such as
> > cleaning up bits of the kernel and queuing mega-patches for the next
> > round of merging.)
> 
> The freezes are for fixing bugs, especially recent regressions.

Given my stated low activity during the -rc periods, well, you draw
your conclusion from that.

> There's no shortage of them, you know.

Please let me know when there's something in my area regresses.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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