Re: uploading 3.15-rc8

[Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>]

On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 21:28 +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 07:43:11PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 09:48 +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> > > Unfortunately it looks like 3.14 will get long term support,
> > > hence it is a very likely candidate for the upcoming release.
> > 
> > How certain is that do you think? There's a bunch of stuff in trunk for
> > 3.15 which I would start thinking about porting to the sid branch if
> > this was definite... (mostly .config tweaks for variousARM platforms,
> > but also the sunxi mmc backport, although that may be infeasible back to
> > 3.14).
> 
> Here is the public announcement for long term release of 3.14:
> https://twitter.com/gregkh/status/468985929231654912

Thanks.

> For a newer than 3.14, say 3.16 one would an upstream longterm
> maintenance, as gregkh chooses one per year, the dices seem thrown atm.

Indeed. A bit unfortunate since 3.14 will be pretty old by the time
Jessie comes out.

> For Broadwell support this would mean too quite some backports..

Yes :-/

Ian.