Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:20:45 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc8 |
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On Wed 2008-12-10 17:04:39, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Nothing overly exciting here. Lots of small things, mostly in drivers > (with some defconfig updates for m68k and mips making the diffs bigger). > > There's some uncomfortably big changes to the intel DRI code, but most of > that is all about fixes to the new i916 "GEM" code that is only used by > development X servers, and is a new feature, so it shouldn't be able to > cause regressions. > > Perhaps more interesting is simply the release scheduling issue. I'm > getting slowly ready to do a real 2.6.28, but I don't think anybody really > wants the merge window to be around the holidays. So the question is > really whether to > > (a) just make the -rc's go on a few more weeks, and do 2.6.28 after xmas > > I like this, because alledgely people are debugging things, and we'd > get a more stable 2.6.28. > > or > > (b) release in a week or two, but just allow for possibly extending the > merge window due to people being drunk on eggnog.. > > I like this because let's face it, we get more and better bug > information after releases, and everything _should_ be ready for > merging *before* the merge window anyway.
I like (b)... to have some more interesrting holidays :-).
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