Re: Rate of change

[Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:39:32PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:37:59PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:16:00PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >  > 
> >  > 850 changesets and 3383 revisions since 2.6.9 was released,
> >  > a little over 24 hours ago.
> >  > 
> >  > That's pretty impressive.
> > 
> > Given a lot of these are backlogs from folks being
> > conservative whilst we were in -rc, perhaps this is an
> > indication we need shorter -rc periods ?
> 
> 
> Actually, we need longer non-rc periods :)

Personally, I think both of you are right.  One major kernel release a
month seemed to be about the right rate.  Maybe a week and a half of
non-rc plus two and a half weeks of -rc would be the right kind of
balance?

-- 
Russell King
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