Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 08:28:45PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 10:51:25AM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >>> Holger Levsen wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> in http://meetbot.debian.net/meetbot/debian-release.20071031_1800.html we >>>> agreed that 2.6.23 in sid should happen first and it has happened by now :) >>>> >>>> Also it's almost 2008, so it stroke me, that to have EtchAndAHalf ready at >>>> roughly half the time between etch and lenny, we need to start doing stuff >>>> at >>>> some momemt soonish, aka now. (Etch was released easter 2007, plus nine >>>> month >>>> is january 2008, assuming a 18 month release schedule for Lenny... ;) >>> Well, EtchAndAHalf is not meant to be released before the security >>> support of sarge has ended (april 2008)... >> Personally I don't find this a gating factor. I have mentioned in the >> past that I don't want to support 3 kernel releases at once, but I've >> found maintenance of the etch kernel to be pretty manageable - mostly >> thanks to the single source and the closeness to upstream-head. I >> expect the overhead of security support for a recent upstream to be >> pretty low at the beginning. > > If needed, I can become again more active for kernel security updates > during the three overlapping months. > > We really should aim for an etch/5 release with 2.6.23 in mid to end january.
At the moment we can not even look at the files in the p-u-new queue since ries's crash, so we still have a backlog for r2... Cheers Luk -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
