Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc8

Pavel Machek
2008-12-11T15:21:06Z

On Wed 2008-12-10 17:04:39, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Nothing overly exciting here. Lots of small things, mostly in drivers
> (with some defconfig updates for m68k and mips making the diffs bigger).
>
> There's some uncomfortably big changes to the intel DRI code, but most of
> that is all about fixes to the new i916 "GEM" code that is only used by
> development X servers, and is a new feature, so it shouldn't be able to
> cause regressions.
>
> Perhaps more interesting is simply the release scheduling issue. I'm
> getting slowly ready to do a real 2.6.28, but I don't think anybody really
> wants the merge window to be around the holidays. So the question is
> really whether to
>
> (a) just make the -rc's go on a few more weeks, and do 2.6.28 after xmas
>
> I like this, because alledgely people are debugging things, and we'd
> get a more stable 2.6.28.
>
> or
>
> (b) release in a week or two, but just allow for possibly extending the
> merge window due to people being drunk on eggnog..
>
> I like this because let's face it, we get more and better bug
> information after releases, and everything _should_ be ready for
> merging *before* the merge window anyway.

I like (b)... to have some more interesrting holidays :-).

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