Re: Let's make a small change to the process

From: Paolo Ciarrocchi (paolo.ciarrocchi_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/26/04

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    Date:	Tue, 26 Oct 2004 22:26:40 +0200
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>

    On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:22:24 -0700, William Lee Irwin III
    <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
    > On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:16:08PM +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
    >
    >
    > > despite I know you are all bored with the " I know how to improve the
    > > process" email but I want to share with you this idea .-)
    > > Both Andrew and Linus are doing an impressive job so I really don't
    > > think we need to change the way they are working.
    > > What I'm suggesting is start offering 2.6.X:Y kernel, you did for
    > > 2.6.8.1 so...
    > > The .Y patchset contains only important security fix (all stuff you
    > > think are important) and is weekly uploaded to kernel.org
    > > Doing that, people:
    > > - can stop running "personal version of vanilla kernel
    > > - don't need to wait till next Linus' release in order to have a
    > > security bug fixed
    > > We, of course, need a maintainer for it,
    > > maybe someone from OSDL (Randy?), maybe wli (he maintained his tree
    > > for a long time), maybe Alan (that is already applying these kind of
    > > fixes to his tree), maybe someone else... ?
    > > Sounds reasonable ?
    >
    > Not normally the first thing I'd volunteer for. I probably won't at
    > all unless demand comes down from on high.

    Well, I wrote your name because you are a great developer but I
    understand you prefer doing something else ;)

    What about just the *idea* ? 

    -- 
Paolo
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