From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: Re: next iptables release Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:24:35 +0100 Message-ID: <49C39913.80000@netfilter.org> References: <49C202EA.40006@trash.net> <49C23FD6.6010503@netfilter.org> <49C240DA.2070006@trash.net> <49C24EC7.3020402@trash.net> <49C251DD.3020309@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Netfilter Development Mailinglist To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: Received: from mail.us.es ([193.147.175.20]:49087 "EHLO us.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752560AbZCTNYq (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:24:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49C251DD.3020309@trash.net> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Patrick McHardy wrote: > I do to, but I don't see why we should risk it. Its just as well possible > that someone testing it thinks of a great feature that would perfectly fit > in, but needs ABI changes. The -rc phase is for testing and also fixing > and changing things, releasing userspace before the kernel part is set in > stone is unnecessarily reducing the short amount of time we have for this. Indeed. I'll apply the patch once iptables is released. Let me know if I can give you a hand with the releasing process. -- "Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers