Hi all, I'm the author of the document "Introduction to Linux Kernel Development Process" hosted at http://linux.tar.bz/articles/2.6-development_process. Part of the document has been included in Documentation/HOWTO
I was reading both the documents while I started, again, to think about how to improve the quality of the vanilla kernels. Here are a few line of the document I wrote: ---8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<--- --- 2.6.x kernels --- 2.6.x kernels are maintained by Linus Torvalds, it's development is as follow: - As soon a new kernel is released a two weeks windows is open, during this period of time maintainers can submit big diffs to Linus, usually the patched sited in -mm kernels for a few weeks. Preferred way to submit big changes is using GIT (more information about GIT at http://git.or.cz/ and http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html). - After two weeks a -rc1 kernel is released and now is possible to push only patches that do not include new functionalities that could affect the stability of the whole kernel. Please note that a whole new driver (or filesystem) might be accepted after -rc1 because there is no risk of causing regressions with such a change - A new -rc is released whenever Linus deems the current git (the kernel's source management) tree to be in a reasonably sane state adequate for testing. The goal is to release a new -rc kernel every week. - Process continues until the kernel is considered "ready", the process should last around 6 weeks ( 6 kernels per year should be released) an usually includes 4/5 rc releases. ---8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<--- The sentence "Process continues until the kernel is considered "ready" " should probably be changed in order to reflect the usage of the "regression list" that Adrian and then Michal were used to maintain. Is there a "stable" place were users can read/comment/modify the list? Wasn't Google interested in employee a person to take care of regression/bug report? (Yes, if there is an open position I would be interested in applying ;-). Thanks! Regards, -- Paolo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/