Ben Hutchings: > On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 07:34 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: > [...] >> >> Would you prefer that we moved future freezes (i.e. Buster and later), >> so we could always rely on Greg's branch? > > Yes, I would. >
Ok, we will take it into consideration for the planning of the next freeze.
> [...]
>> - How certain are we on the 22nd being the actual release date?
>
> I thought that 10 week cycles were rare, but I checked this and now I'm
> much less confident. Rounding to the nearest week, the distribution of
> release cycle lengths from 3.2 to 4.4 inclusive, is:
>
> 8 weeks: * ( 1)
> 9 weeks: ********** (10)
> 10 weeks: ********** (10)
> 11 weeks: ** ( 2)
>
> (I chose this range to exclude the 3.1 release delayed by the
> kernel.org compromise.)
>
> So it seems quite possible that 4.10 could be released later in January
> or in February.
>
> [...]
Ok, so a reasonable guess would be actually be 10 weeks, which puts us
at the 29th of January? An upstream stable update would come 3-4 weeks
later.
>> * How difficult/disruptive do you expect the migration to linux 4.10
>> will be?
>> - Is this something we can reasonably do within a month? 2 months?
>
> Migration from what, 4.9?
>
Yes - on the assumption that we are going to use 4.10, I presume it
would be easiest to upgrade from 4.9 rather than 4.4 (admittedly, I am
ignoring roll-backs for a moment).
>> [...]
>
>> - How long does Greg's LTS last? We would spend at least a year of
>> it before January 22nd 2017.
>
> About 15 months.
>
> [...]
So Greg's LTS will almost be over by the time 4.10 is released? Seems
like we are not getting a lot from sticking with 4.4 then?
From what I can gather so far:
* We are looking at moving the freeze at least 2 months if we want
Linux 4.10.
- At +2 months, Linux 4.10 would be just before the "deep freeze"
(Assuming a 10 week release cycle for Linux).
* If we stick with 4.4, the Debian Linux maintainers receives
practically no advantage from Greg's LTS effort.
Thanks,
~Niels
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