From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262927AbUGLUem (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:34:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262772AbUGLUcz (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:32:55 -0400 Received: from mproxy.gmail.com ([216.239.56.250]:4598 "HELO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262730AbUGLU2c (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:28:32 -0400 Message-ID: <4d8e3fd304071213287b995ae9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:28:18 +0200 From: Paolo Ciarrocchi To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc1 Cc: Adrian Bunk , Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <4d8e3fd3040712023469039826@mail.gmail.com> <20040712154204.GS4701@fs.tum.de> <4d8e3fd304071208566280e89b@mail.gmail.com> <20040712163417.GT4701@fs.tum.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 09:43:54 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > The Linux kernel development process isn't that much formalized. But if > > someone finds a serious new problem in a -rc kernel a fix will usually > > go into the next -rc. > > Indeed. > > The whole _point_ of -rc kernels is to find silly problems. > > Trying to have a release mechanism for -rc kernels in order to avoid some > problems in them would kind of defeat the point. The -rc kernels are there > to encourage people who wouldn't want to just take a daily shapshot to > tell us when we break things - and clearly it's working ;) Again, I'm really not saying that is not working ;-), I just think that the process could be improved using the tools we already have available. > (There's also a totally nontechnical point to -rc kernels: it's a way to > tell people to calm down a bit. Usually we have a backlog that gets filled > up after a kernel release, and then with the -rc kernels people usually > slow down feeding non-critical stuff to me. At least a bit) > -- paoloc.doesntexist.org