On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 05:40:05PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > You are aware that the upstream maintainers announced a change in > their release management on kernel summit?
I am part of the upstream maintainers, did attend kernel summit and didn't see a big annoucement, just an discussion of existing and on-going practice. > Yeah, but some people (including me) might not be able to judge the > impact of a patch from these rather terse comments. For example, is > Chris Wright's patch close a local root privilege escalation > possibility, or does it only fix a "does not build" on mipsel? The > comments are way too terse for somebody not following lkml, bugtraq > and other discussion media be able to judge whether the patch is > locally useful or not. We can add a [sec] tag to security fixes for future patches.
