Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

Andrew Morton
2005-03-04T02:35:34Z

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Iau, 2005-03-03 at 23:17, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Ideally, the 2.6.x.y maintainer wouldn't need any particular kernel
> > development skills - it's just patchmonkeying the things which maintainers
> > send him.
>
> I would disagree, and I suspect anyone else who has maintained a distro
> stable kernel would likewise. It needs one or more people who know who
> to ask about stuff, are careful, have a good grounding in bug spotting,
> races, common mistakes and know roughly how all the kernel works.
> Maintainers aren't very good at it in general and they don't see
> overlaps between areas very well.
>

That is all inappropriate activity for a 2.6.x.y tree as it is being
proposed.

Am I right? All we're proposing here is a tree which has small fixups for
reasonably serious problems. Almost without exception it would consist of
backports.