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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
	Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, konstantin@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.34.x longterm stable status
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:38:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52DEA271.3060709@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52DE9938.6090804@windriver.com>

On 01/21/2014 07:58 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> On 14-01-21 10:10 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 08/07/2013 09:07 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>>>>
>>>> - Shouldn't the EOL status be mentioned in the www.kernel.org front page?
>>>
>>> It will be marked EOL at kernel.org when it is EOL.  Those that care
>>> about it being EOL would have seen the message about it becoming EOL in
>>> the previous 2.6.34.x release annoucement.
>>>
>>
>> Maybe it is time to check in on this?
> 
> Yes, Konstantin just ping'd me recently on this, and the final update will
> be out for review within a week;  with a focus on just clear CVE like
> fixes and hence a relatively smaller queue size (i.e. nothing like 200
> patches etc.)
> 
> If you think it best to mark it EOL in advance of that last release,
> rather than waiting for it to appear, I don't see that as a problem.
> 

No, if you are genuinely planning another release soon that's fine.

	-hpa



      reply	other threads:[~2014-01-21 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-05 19:32 2.6.34.x longterm stable status Aaro Koskinen
2013-08-08  4:07 ` Paul Gortmaker
2014-01-21 15:10   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-21 15:58     ` Paul Gortmaker
2014-01-21 16:38       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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