Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc8

Arjan van de Ven
2008-12-11T05:08:35Z

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:04:39 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 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.
>

if you go for option (b) I would suggest doing an -rc in the middle, or
at least some snapshot release, to act as anchor point for the second
wave... maybe even a day or two of quiet around that to give people
time to regroup.

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