Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc8

[Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>]

Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:40:58AM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 05:04:39PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>  (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.
>>>
>> I'll vote for a. An open merge window over the holidays possible results
>> in needless stresses for the developers at a time which some of them
>> want to use otherwise. Or if any merge introduces bad bugs and the
>> developers that can fix it are on xmax vacation we may end up with an
>> unusable upstream tree for a week or so. Same with merge conflicts.
>> So, I'd suggest to wait until everybody is back to work until opening
>> the merge window.
> 
> I'd vote for (a) as well, and hopefully folks who are really
> conscientious can do some integration testing of linux-next and can
> report problems there to make the merge window go more smoothly after
> the New Year's.
> 
> 							- Ted

I'll second (or third?) this motion... ;-)

Thanks,
Mike