From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: next iptables release Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:25:19 +0100 Message-ID: <49C3A74F.8050602@trash.net> References: <49C202EA.40006@trash.net> <49C23FD6.6010503@netfilter.org> <49C240DA.2070006@trash.net> <49C24EC7.3020402@trash.net> <49C251DD.3020309@trash.net> <49C39913.80000@netfilter.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Netfilter Development Mailinglist To: Pablo Neira Ayuso Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:63038 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752798AbZCTOZX (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:25:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49C39913.80000@netfilter.org> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > 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. Thanks, I hope I can manage it :)