Re: New (now current development process)

Andrew Morton
2005-10-30T21:24:38Z

Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:29:28AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> > > I don't think anybody has been really unhappy with this approach? Hmm?
> >
> > The long freeze periods were nothing much happens are painful. It
> > would be better to have some more overlap of merging and stabilizing
> > (stable does that already kind of, but not enough)
>
> Violently agree. I find the long freeze periods painful and very very
> very boring, to the point of looking for other stuff to do (such as
> cleaning up bits of the kernel and queuing mega-patches for the next
> round of merging.)

The freezes are for fixing bugs, especially recent regressions. There's no
shortage of them, you know.

I you can think of a better way to get kernel developers off their butts
and actually fixing bugs, I'm all ears.