On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 07:02:01PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Hi Benjamin, > > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 10:01:41AM -0700, Benjamin Cherian wrote: > > Willy, > > Sorry I didn't notice your email till now. > > no problem. > > > On Friday 04 August 2006 09:55, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > The problem is that Marcelo is very very busy those days (as you might > > > have > > > noticed from the delay between each release), and there are a good bunch > > > of > > > security fixes in -rc3 which should wait too much in -rc. Maybe an -rc4 > > > would be OK, but I don't know if Marcelo has enough time to spend on yet > > > another RC. Otherwise, if I produce a 2.4.34-pre1 about one week after > > > 2.4.33, does that fit your needs ? I already have a few fixes waiting > > > which > > > might be worth a first pre-release. > > > > It would be nice if you could do another rc, because otherwise it seems the > > patch wouldn't get into a stable kernel for a long time. But if it's really > > too much work for Marcelo, I would understand you putting it in th 2.4.34 > > pre-release. > > The real problem is that Marcelo seems to be *very* busy. I failed to get > any contact from him from one week now. It's even becoming worrying, I hope > he's alright. I don't know how much time it would take him to produce another > release, but it will for sure delay 2.4.33 for a few weeks during which > Marcelo > will still be bound to this time-consuming task. It's left to him to decide > anyway. In normal ciscumstances, I would for sure add another -rc, but delays > get stretched too far given the number of vulnerabilities fixed in 2.4.33.
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