From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Rate of change
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:34:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041020153416.E14627@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041019213932.GA7383@havoc.gtf.org>; from jgarzik@pobox.com on Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:39:32PM -0400
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:39:32PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:37:59PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:16:00PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > >
> > > 850 changesets and 3383 revisions since 2.6.9 was released,
> > > a little over 24 hours ago.
> > >
> > > That's pretty impressive.
> >
> > Given a lot of these are backlogs from folks being
> > conservative whilst we were in -rc, perhaps this is an
> > indication we need shorter -rc periods ?
>
>
> Actually, we need longer non-rc periods :)
Personally, I think both of you are right. One major kernel release a
month seemed to be about the right rate. Maybe a week and a half of
non-rc plus two and a half weeks of -rc would be the right kind of
balance?
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-20 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-19 21:16 Rate of change Jeff Garzik
2004-10-19 21:31 ` Ben Dooks
2004-10-19 21:37 ` Dave Jones
2004-10-19 21:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-20 14:34 ` Russell King [this message]
2004-10-21 20:30 ` Jens Axboe
2004-10-22 10:28 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-19 21:39 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-19 21:45 ` Matt Heler
2004-10-19 22:04 ` Jeff Garzik
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