Re: Release 2.12

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:08:41AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:26:54PM -0400, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > I'd like to propose H.J. as release manager for a 2.12 branch.
> > Assuming that you (H.J.) are interested, and that you would
> > consider doing the lot, not just GNU/Linux.
> 
> I like the idea.  I was going to suggest that the 2.12 fork should
> coincide with one of HJ's releases in order to benefit from the testing
> that H.J. puts into his releases.  As HP commented to me in private
> mail, H.J. is already acting as release manager.  The number of people
> using HJ's releases should speak loudly; if he was doing something wrong
> there would be a large scale migration of linux users back to FSF
> releases.

While I support the idea, I'd like to strongly disagree with the last
part of your reasoning.

Both Debian and Hard Hat use H. J.'s binutils for roughly the same
reasons - they have marginally more testing than "pick a day, take a
snapshot".  Marginally.  If there was some better cross between every
eight months and weekly - for instance, if the release branch received
active bug fixes, when critical bugs were found - then things might be
quite different.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer