Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1

David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Sun, 16 Dec 2001 17:40:46 +0100


On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 11:22:53AM -0500, David Relson wrote:
> At 11:10 AM 12/16/01, John Alvord wrote:
> >You shouldn't fix every single defect, just the ones with wide
> >impact. Otherwise the rcX series could go on a long time. john
>
> John,
>
> Well said. Fix the show stoppers in the rcX series for 2.4.17. Leave the
> small ones for 2.4.18-preX.
>
> ... repeat above steps for 2.4.18-rcX and 2.4.19
> ... repeat for ...
>
> ... iterate until time for 2.6.0 :-)

Uhm, hopefully the release of 2.6.0 won't mean that maintainance of
2.4.xx will cease. While it *might* be possible that 2.4.xx is bugfree
enough, some smaller fixes and driver-backports will probably still
be needed.

Regards: David Weinehall
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