Re: Let's make a small change to the process

Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-10-26T20:47:25Z

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:36:44 -0400, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:16:08PM +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
>
> > The .Y patchset contains only important security fix (all stuff you
> > think are important) and is weekly uploaded to kernel.org
> >
> > Doing that, people:
> > - can stop running "personal version of vanilla kernel
> > - don't need to wait till next Linus' release in order to have a
> > security bug fixed
> >
> > We, of course, need a maintainer for it,
> > maybe someone from OSDL (Randy?), maybe wli (he maintained his tree
> > for a long time), maybe Alan (that is already applying these kind of
> > fixes to his tree), maybe someone else... ?
>
> 2.6-ac seems to be filling this role right now.
>

Correct.
But as I user I tend to look at kernel.org and download "The latest
stable version of the Linux kernel is".

If the goal of -ac is to only include those fixes, why can't we rename
it in something more "intuitive" for the final users ?
Do you see what I mean ?

--
Paolo