Re: [stable] no announce mails for "older" stable-releases on linux-kernel-announce (Was: Re: Linux 2.6.20.16)

Greg KH
2007-08-16T17:28:12Z

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 08:42:29AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 16.08.2007 08:29, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 08:12:07AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> >> On 16.08.2007 07:43, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> >>> I've just released Linux 2.6.20.16. This version catches up with 2.6.21.7.
> >>> I hope to issue newer releases soon with next batches of pending patches.
> >>>
> >>> I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch between
> >>> 2.6.20.15 and 2.6.20.16.
> >>> [...]
> >> Just wondering -- Kernels like this (or 2.6.16.x, 2.6.21.x as well as
> >> 2.6.22.x once 2.6.23 got released) don't get announced on
> >> linux-kernel-announce. Is that on purpose or a misbehavior of scripts
> >> that create the messages for linux-kernel-announce?
> > even simpler : I've never been aware of linux-kernel-announce. It's
> > possible that only Linus sends there and that even the -stable team
> > does not use/know about it either.
>
> Mails for the current stable-releases get out there -- e.g. I received a
> "Linux kernel 2.6.22.3 released" not that long ago (that particular one
> was broken, but that's another story mentioned somewhere else on LKML
> already).
>
> If just seems that 2.6.21.x (or 2.6.20.x or 2.6.16.x) don't get
> mentioned on the list because some script likely does a check like this:
>
> if 2.6.22.3 > 2.6.20.16;
> then
> # don't send mail
> exit
> fi
>
> >> > If the latter: are those scripts available somewhere?
> > we all have somewhat different scripts. [...]
>
> I tend to think it's a script that runs on a server site somewhere to
> generates those mails, as they contain the text:

Yes, it's something on kernel.org, I don't do anything to generate a
message to be sent on the -announce mailing list.

Perhaps you need to ask the kernel.org maintainers about this.

thanks,

greg k-h