Re: [stable] [Stable-review] Future of the -longterm kernel releases (i.e. how we pick them).

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 01:20:37PM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> 
> >>Do they need help from the community
> >>instead to help define, implement, and maintain this for them?
> >
> >I think the answer is yes.
> >
> 
> to expand on this a bit.
> 
> it's a lot easier to look at changelogs and see if a -stable or
> -longterm update is relavent to your systems than it is to watch the
> flood of merges to the latest kerenl and then figure out how to
> backport them. BUt people who start up just compiling their own
> kernels frequently become testers, if not contributers to the
> kernel. If everyone only runs the distro kernels, then the upstream
> kernel quality will suffer because nobody is testing it.

I totally agree.

> people running -longterm kernels on their productionsystems will not
> be testing the llatest -rc kernel on those systems, but they are
> likely to be more interested in watching and testng new kernel
> releases (at least on lab machines) than people who just wait for
> things to be backported to the distro kernel.

That's good to hear, hopefully the -longterm kernels are useful for them
and their usage model.  If not, please let me know.

greg k-h