On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:12:57 -0400, Jurij Smakov wrote: > Hello, > > I think it would be really useful if whoever is planning the next > kernel-source upload would give at least 24-hour advance warning by > e-mailing debian-kernel that such upload is planned. That would give > people a chance to review their patches, make last-minute additions and > build a test kernel based on the new k-s. Just an idea, comments are > welcome. >
I'd rather people do kernel-source uploads when they're needed. One of the problems with architectures all using k-s is, attempting to coordinate a release that every arch is satisfied w/ is problematic. People get annoyed when their arch is ready to go, but they have to wait for some other arch. So, it's better to just release whenever. We have kernel-tree, which means kernel-image packages don't need to rebuild for every k-s release. The way this works in practice is; I get i386 in shape, release k-s 2.6.x-1. Svenl gets powerpc ready, and dannf gets ia64 ready (though they don't coordinate), and Sven releases k-s 2.6.x-2. Horms throws some security fixes in SVN; Joshk gets sparc ready, and releases k-s 2.6.x-3. Due to the security patches, other archs rebuild against 2.6.x-3. And so on. If people want to give advance notice of a k-s release, that's fine, but it shouldn't be a requirement. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
