Re: [RFC] Documentation: add documentation for rc-series and mergewindow

From: Luis R. Rodriguez
Date: Tue Jun 16 2009 - 00:39:41 EST


On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 09:21:14PM -0700, Luis Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 08:20:34PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:10:11PM -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > + 2.6.30 June 10, 2009 - 79 days
> > > + 2.6.29 March 23, 2009 - 84 days
> > > + 2.6.28 December 29, 2008 - 82 days
> > > + 2.6.27 October 8, 2008 - 87 days
> > > + 2.6.26 July 13, 2008 - 88 days
> > > + 2.6.25 April 16, 2008 - 83 days
> > > + 2.6.24 January 24, 2008 - 107 days
> > > + 2.6.23 October 9, 2007 - 93 days
> > > + 2.6.22 July 8, 2007 - 74 days
> > > + 2.6.21 April 25, 2007 - 80 days
> > > 2.6.20 February 4, 2007
> >
> > Are you sure about those dates and the count of number of days?
>
> I used this cheesy web app:
>
> http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html
>
> So it could have told 42 for all answers I suppose and I wouldn't have known
> the difference. BTW does your list count the ending date? That is from say
> 01-01-2009 to 01-02-2009 does it count 2 or 1? I set it to not count it.
>
> > According to my "big spreadsheet of kernel releases", your day count is
> > wrong...
> >
> > I have:
> >
> > release: v2.6.20 v2.6.21 v2.6.22 v2.6.23 v2.6.24 v2.6.25 v2.6.26 v2.6.27 v2.6.28 v2.6.29 v2.6.30
> > date: 02/04/07 04/25/07 07/08/07 10/09/07 01/24/08 04/16/08 07/13/08 10/09/08 12/24/08 03/23/09 06/09/09
> > # Days: 68 81 75 94 108 83 88 88 76 89 78
>
> I'll trust your big spreadsheet more and with it you actually get a nice
> even 86.0 average.

FWIW using the same cheesy web app, if we do go about the 10 kernel release
average of 86.0 days the next 2.6.31 release should be September 4, 2009.

Luis
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