From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: binutils@sources.redhat.com Cc: Hans-Peter Nilsson , "H . J . Lu" Subject: Re: Release 2.12 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:49:00 -0000 Message-id: <20011024215003.A9135@nevyn.them.org> References: <20011025110841.Z1037@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00471.html 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