Re: irc meeting regarding kernel status d-i RC3
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 12:43:02PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Andres Salomon wrote:
> > I'm of the opinion that if sarge is literally less than a month away from
> > freezing, then let's stick w/ 2.6.8. It's Good Enough; if we can get
> > around ACPI problems by disabling it, fine. However, if sarge is still
> > far away from freezing, then there's no reason not to go w/ 2.6.10.
> > It's clearly shown itself to be a better kernel in some cases; we just
> > need testing to find regressions in *core* stuff (individual drivers,
> > filesystems, etc, can all have fixes backported. It's the core stuff
> > that's difficult). I'm not concerned about when d-i rc3 is released; I
> > care about when *sarge* releases. People said that once rc2 was out, sarge
> > would be ready. That's clearly not the case, and probably won't be the
> > case once rc3 is out.
Agreed.
> a) The last thing I want to do is place d-i in the position of being the
> last thing blocking the sarge release, and swapping out the kernel at
> this point has a very good potential to do so. I think vorlon agrees,
> but I'll stop quoting his offhand comments on irc now. :-)
> I'm rather happy actually that you think we can release with 2.6.8.
>
> b) Many of the people whose time would be spent working on updating d-i
> to a new kernel could better use that time to work on other RC issues
> for sarge. For example, I work on tracking security issues in testing.
> Kamion and vorlon work on getting the release out. Etc.
I for one am confused at best about how close sarge is,
feedback like this from the di team is tremendously useful.
Thanks
--
Horms
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