From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Cc: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>, "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
Subject: Re: Release 2.12
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011024215003.A9135@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011025110841.Z1037@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au>
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.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-24 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-24 18:26 Hans-Peter Nilsson
2001-10-24 18:38 ` Alan Modra
2001-10-24 18:43 ` David O'Brien
2001-10-24 19:30 ` Alan Modra
2001-10-24 19:35 ` MMIX (was: Re: Release 2.12) Hans-Peter Nilsson
2001-10-24 21:45 ` Release 2.12 Eric Christopher
2001-10-25 8:41 ` H . J . Lu
2001-10-25 8:47 ` H . J . Lu
2001-10-24 18:49 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2001-10-24 19:43 ` Alan Modra
2001-10-24 20:10 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-10-24 20:35 ` Alan Modra
2001-10-24 20:44 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-10-25 5:09 ` Christopher C. Chimelis
2001-10-25 1:56 ` Philip Blundell
2001-10-25 8:30 ` H . J . Lu
2001-10-25 8:47 ` David O'Brien
[not found] ` <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
2002-01-04 17:42 ` [Linux-ia64] Compiling kernel 2.4.17 fails at link stage Grant Grundler
2002-01-04 17:59 ` H . J . Lu
2002-01-04 20:37 ` Grant Grundler
2002-01-04 22:39 ` H . J . Lu
2002-01-07 12:52 ` Grant Grundler
2002-01-04 19:21 ` Alan Modra
2003-11-29 2:33 ` ppc problem with .rodata.str1.4. binutils requirement for gcc 3.3.1? David Edelsohn
2003-11-29 3:05 ` Alan Modra
2003-11-29 4:06 ` David Edelsohn
2003-11-29 4:10 ` Andrew Pinski
2003-11-29 4:20 ` David Edelsohn
2003-11-29 6:47 ` Alan Modra
2003-11-29 19:40 ` David Edelsohn
2004-05-19 15:19 ` Powerpc Linux build fails David Edelsohn
2004-05-20 0:39 ` Alan Modra
2004-05-20 1:24 ` Alan Modra
2004-05-20 1:46 ` Alan Modra
2004-05-20 2:29 ` David Edelsohn
2004-05-20 3:10 ` Alan Modra
2006-08-04 1:49 ` Link problems with section anchors David Edelsohn
2006-08-04 2:04 ` Alan Modra
2001-10-24 19:37 ` Release 2.12 Russ Allbery
2001-10-24 19:52 ` Alan Modra
2001-10-25 0:46 ` H . J . Lu
2001-10-25 8:57 ` David O'Brien
2001-10-25 9:38 ` H . J . Lu
2001-10-25 9:44 ` H . J . Lu
2001-12-31 19:09 Compiling kernel 2.4.17 fails at link stage Krishnakumar B
2002-01-04 3:50 ` Alan Modra
2002-01-04 12:39 ` [Linux-ia64] " Alan Modra
[not found] <087e01c3b5da$77d658e0$0202040a@catdog>
2003-11-29 1:42 ` ppc problem with .rodata.str1.4. binutils requirement for gcc 3.3.1? Alan Modra
2003-11-29 18:14 ` Kris Warkentin
[not found] <3A3FC75F7C72D711A7DC009027AC9C4B1788D9@jupiter>
2004-05-19 3:30 ` Powerpc Linux build fails Alan Modra
2004-05-19 4:27 ` Geoff Keating
2004-05-19 5:10 ` Alan Modra
2004-05-19 16:24 ` Kumar Gala
2004-05-20 0:44 ` Alan Modra
[not found] <44D2755E.9020600@us.ibm.com>
2006-08-04 1:30 ` Link problems with section anchors Alan Modra
2006-08-04 9:04 ` Richard Sandiford
2006-08-04 13:53 ` Steven Munroe
2006-08-04 13:54 ` David Edelsohn
2006-08-04 14:01 ` Richard Sandiford
2006-08-04 14:12 ` David Edelsohn
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