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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	"ksummit-2010-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org" 
	<ksummit-2010-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	"mingo@elte.hu" <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: RE: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add U: for URL of todo list, add RCU todo list
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:46:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1283298391.1797.100.camel@Joe-Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <987664A83D2D224EAE907B061CE93D53015D9B2445@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 16:25 -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> >Then, the list is maintained outside of mainline (in the subsystem git
> >tree) and will automatically update mainline in the next merge window
> >when the tree is pulled.
> 
> But this would mean that the version of the todo list in Linus' tree
> is usually a release (3 months) out of date.  It would be a good idea
> for a list maintained this way to include instructions on how to find
> the current version, lest some unsuspecting person waste time working
> on items that are already fixed and waiting for the next merge.

There are already reasonable mechanisms for this.

It's perfectly fine to have multiple T: entries,
one for a current tree, another for a -next tree.

SECTION - name
M:	who <email.address>
T:	git <url>
T:	git <url-next>
F:	dir/file_pattern

Linus rarely seems to object to pulling Documentation updates.

Note the Documentation updates after any -rc2

$ for ((i=25 ; i<36 ; i++)) ; do	\
	cv=v2.6.$i-rc2..v2.6.$i ;	\
	echo -n "$cv: " ;		\
	git log --pretty=oneline --no-merges $cv -- Documentation | wc -l; \
done
v2.6.25-rc2..v2.6.25: 87
v2.6.26-rc2..v2.6.26: 48
v2.6.27-rc2..v2.6.27: 65
v2.6.28-rc2..v2.6.28: 67
v2.6.29-rc2..v2.6.29: 50
v2.6.30-rc2..v2.6.30: 44
v2.6.31-rc2..v2.6.31: 35
v2.6.32-rc2..v2.6.32: 74
v2.6.33-rc2..v2.6.33: 31
v2.6.34-rc2..v2.6.34: 32
v2.6.35-rc2..v2.6.35: 8



  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-31 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-26 15:45 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add U: for URL of todo list, add RCU todo list Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-26 15:51 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-08-26 16:03   ` [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add W: todo lists Joe Perches
2010-08-26 15:51 ` [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add U: for URL of todo list, add RCU todo list Joe Perches
2010-08-26 16:14   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-26 16:18     ` Joe Perches
2010-08-26 16:25     ` [Ksummit-2010-discuss] " James Bottomley
2010-08-26 16:29       ` Randy Dunlap
2010-08-26 16:34         ` James Bottomley
2010-08-26 16:38         ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-08-26 16:42           ` Jiri Kosina
2010-08-26 17:00             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-08-31 17:23           ` Steven Rostedt
2010-08-31 23:02             ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-31 23:17               ` Steven Rostedt
2010-08-31 23:19                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-08-31 23:25                 ` Luck, Tony
2010-08-31 23:46                   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2010-09-01  0:23                     ` Eric Paris
2010-09-01  0:34                       ` Joe Perches
2010-09-01  8:54                         ` Mark Brown
2010-09-01 10:03                           ` Mike Rapoport
2010-09-01 10:15                             ` Mark Brown
2010-09-01 10:02                       ` Alan Cox
2010-08-27  9:19         ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-26 16:30       ` Joe Perches
2010-08-26 16:45       ` Joe Perches
2010-08-26 16:50       ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-26 23:00         ` Sarah Sharp
2010-08-26 23:23           ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-30  1:40             ` Neil Brown
2010-08-30 15:19               ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-08-26 23:30           ` Joe Perches
2010-08-26 20:47 ` [rfc] MAINTAINERS: Remove broken URLs Joe Perches
2010-08-26 20:49   ` Roland Dreier
2010-08-26 22:28   ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-08-26 22:37     ` Joe Perches
2010-08-26 22:45       ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-08-26 22:38   ` rdunlap
2010-08-27 13:46   ` John W. Linville

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