On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 03:45:04PM -0400, Mike Pagano wrote: > Are we agreed on a few facts? > > 1. Upstream release rate is now a much higher 1-2 kernels a week. > 2. Very frequently, these releases contain security fixes. > 3. This rate of release puts arch teams in a difficult position, since > it is unsustainable to try to keep up tp date with stabilization > 4. By continuing the policy of providing a stable kernel version, Gentoo > is giving a false sense of security to its users, since by the time the > kernel does get stabilized, a newer version more with more security > fixes is almost always already released.
I agree with all of this, so, who is going to create the news item? I think we should do this before 3.10.1 is out, just to start it all during a new kernel release cycle, which should happen by the end of next week, pending something causing me to delay it. thanks, greg k-h
