Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"

William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-26T14:29:21Z

On Tuesday 26 October 2004 01:40, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>> Sure, the next release will (may?) fix these bugs, but it will
>> definitely add a whole set of new ones.

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 06:44:46AM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> To my mind this just points out the need for a bug fix branch. e.g. a
> branch containing just bug/security fixes against the current stable
> kernel. It might also be worth keeping the branch active for the n-1
> stable kernel too.
> PS. we could call this the Bug/Security or bs kernels.

This has been very explicitly encouraged numerous times and no one has
taken up the task. Someone actually doing something about this for once
may be helpful to quell the worries of people such as we're hearing from.

-- wli