Re: Proposed stable release changes

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 04:11:17PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> It would be even better if you could find the time to push -rc releases
> into the stable repository before you accept patches into a stable branch.

What do you mean by this?

The git tree?  I could do that, but when I have to drop a patch, it
would cause a mess if I had to always go forwards.

I could do branches for -rc releases, that end up as the
"end-of-the-line", and I create the next .y release on top of the
previous one, not the -rc release.

That's kind of what I do "internally" when I create the -rc releases in
the first place, but I just delete those throw-away trees, and never
push them publicly anywhere.

Does it really help anyone to do this, except for some automated
testing?  Doesn't the -rc patch work good enough for that?

> I am now running my test suite on stable/master, so that would give it
> some time to catch new problems before they make their way into a stable
> branch.

I don't understand what you mean here.

thanks,

greg k-h