Re: [stable] 4 -stable kernel review cycles starting

Greg KH
2010-07-01T23:29:53Z

On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 04:09:01PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:51:29 -0700 Greg KH wrote:
> > If you don't like this type of review cycle, what would you prefer?
>
> I don't see a magic bullet answer here. I think that it would help
> somewhat for the stable maintainer(s) to have only one -stable review
> cycle (new posting) per day, but someone may not like that either,
> since it would have the effect of delaying some stable kernel releases
> (not to mention muck up your workload).

Yeah, that would mess with the workload management a lot. And I don't
see the benifit of doing a different release on different days. Just
because they are different kernels, the same patches are usually being
applied to all of them, so they are very much alike usually.

thanks,

greg k-h