On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 08:28:45PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 10:51:25AM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
> > Holger Levsen wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > in http://meetbot.debian.net/meetbot/debian-release.20071031_1800.html we
> > > agreed that 2.6.23 in sid should happen first and it has happened by now
> > > :)
> > >
> > > Also it's almost 2008, so it stroke me, that to have EtchAndAHalf ready
> > > at
> > > roughly half the time between etch and lenny, we need to start doing
> > > stuff at
> > > some momemt soonish, aka now. (Etch was released easter 2007, plus nine
> > > month
> > > is january 2008, assuming a 18 month release schedule for Lenny... ;)
> >
> > Well, EtchAndAHalf is not meant to be released before the security
> > support of sarge has ended (april 2008)...
>
> Personally I don't find this a gating factor. I have mentioned in the
> past that I don't want to support 3 kernel releases at once, but I've
> found maintenance of the etch kernel to be pretty manageable - mostly
> thanks to the single source and the closeness to upstream-head. I
> expect the overhead of security support for a recent upstream to be
> pretty low at the beginning.
If needed, I can become again more active for kernel security updates
during the three overlapping months.
We really should aim for an etch/5 release with 2.6.23 in mid to end january.
Cheers,
Moritz
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