On Fri, 2016-02-05 at 18:48 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: > Ben Hutchings: > > On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 07:34 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: [...] > > I thought that 10 week cycles were rare, but I checked this and now I'm > > much less confident. Rounding to the nearest week, the distribution of > > release cycle lengths from 3.2 to 4.4 inclusive, is: > > > > 8 weeks: * ( 1) > > 9 weeks: ********** (10) > > 10 weeks: ********** (10) > > 11 weeks: ** ( 2) > > > > (I chose this range to exclude the 3.1 release delayed by the > > kernel.org compromise.) > > > > So it seems quite possible that 4.10 could be released later in January > > or in February. > > > > [...] > > Ok, so a reasonable guess would be actually be 10 weeks, which puts us > at the 29th of January? An upstream stable update would come 3-4 weeks > later. The earlier cycles might also be 10 weeks, which adds more uncertainty. [...] > > > - How long does Greg's LTS last? We would spend at least a year of > > > it before January 22nd 2017. > > > > About 15 months. > > > > [...] > > So Greg's LTS will almost be over by the time 4.10 is released? Seems > like we are not getting a lot from sticking with 4.4 then? Sorry, either I mixed up maintainers there or I meant to say that we would have 15 months *after* January 2017. Greg typically maintains a 'longterm' branch for about 27 months: 2.6.32: 2009-12 .. 2012-03 (then transferred to Willy Tarreau) 3.0: 2011-07 .. 2013-10 3.4: 2012-05 .. 2014-08 (then transferred to Zefan Li) So we can expect: 4.4: 2016-01 .. 2018-04 > From what I can gather so far: > > * We are looking at moving the freeze at least 2 months if we want > Linux 4.10. > - At +2 months, Linux 4.10 would be just before the "deep freeze" > (Assuming a 10 week release cycle for Linux). > > * If we stick with 4.4, the Debian Linux maintainers receives > practically no advantage from Greg's LTS effort. No, we would benefit from that but this is very early to freeze the kernel and we would need to do a lot of work on backporting hardware support. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.
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