> Hi all,
> I'm the author of the document "Introduction to Linux Kernel
> Development Process" hosted at
>
http://linux.tar.bz/articles/2.6-development_process.
> Part of the document has been included in Documentation/HOWTO
>
> I was reading both the documents while I started, again, to think
> about how to improve the quality of the vanilla kernels.
>
> Here are a few line of the document I wrote:
>
> ---8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<---
> --- 2.6.x kernels ---
>
> 2.6.x kernels are maintained by Linus Torvalds,
> it's development is as follow:
> - As soon a new kernel is released a two weeks windows is open, during
> this period of time maintainers can submit big diffs to Linus, usually
> the patched sited in -mm kernels for a few weeks.
> Preferred way to submit big changes is using GIT
> (more information about GIT at
http://git.or.cz/ and
>
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html).
> - After two weeks a -rc1 kernel is released and now is possible to
> push only patches that do not include new functionalities that could
> affect the stability of the whole kernel. Please note that a whole
> new driver (or filesystem) might be accepted
> after -rc1 because there is no risk of causing regressions with
> such a change
> - A new -rc is released whenever Linus deems the current git
> (the kernel's source management) tree to be in a reasonably sane state
> adequate for testing. The goal is to release a new -rc kernel every week.
> - Process continues until the kernel is considered "ready", the
> process should last around 6 weeks ( 6 kernels per year should be
> released) an usually includes 4/5 rc releases.
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>
> The sentence "Process continues until the kernel is considered "ready"
> " should probably be changed in order to reflect the usage of the
> "regression list" that Adrian and then Michal were used to maintain.
>
> Is there a "stable" place were users can read/comment/modify the list?
