Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

Steven Rostedt
2005-12-06T01:26:42Z

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >
> > Actually, they are already maintaining 2.6.x.y, (x => 11, 12, ...)
>
> I think the 2.6.x.y series is no longer maintained once 2.6.x+1 has
> been released for some time (surely after 2.6.x+2).
>

The same can still go for this, but instead of stopping at 2.6.x+2 we could
stop at 2.6.x+6 (or +5), and just not care about 2.6.x+[1-4]. But that
would be strong enough for those that would like the stable branch to
maintain it themselves. Currently it'l hard to pick a 2.6.x that you want
to stay with since the 2.6.x.y is stopped right after 2.6.x+1 is out. But
if not all 2.6.x has a .y, then that would focus more distrobutions or
whatever to pick the same one to support.

Oh well, I'm just spitting out a bunch of lip service here. It actually
seems interesting to try, and if I actually had a need to do this, I
would. But right now my focus is elsewhere.

Cheers,

-- Steve