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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

  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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