Releasing, testing

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:15:49 -0700
Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

> > Spend some time reading how Linus does his releases.  
> 
> Got a suggested URL?

I used to follow LKML, but that got impossible for me.

LWN.net does a fair job keeping up with the major twists and turns
in the daily soap opera that is the Linux Kernel.

The wikipedia article give a bit of an overview:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Development_model

But that has not been updated in a long time.

In a horribly abbreviated form: Linus accepts enhancements for
2 weeks, every 3 months (the merge window).  Then, mostly, does
weekly patch releases.  After the merge, it is almost exclusively
fixes.  Bigger and less important patches at first, then working
down the size of the patches, and only taking the most critical 
patches, as the release nears.

Maybe we should ask Linus to start a blog?

RGDS
GARY
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