Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:09:55 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc8 |
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On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:04:39 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 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. >
if you go for option (b) I would suggest doing an -rc in the middle, or at least some snapshot release, to act as anchor point for the second wave... maybe even a day or two of quiet around that to give people time to regroup.
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