On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 07:51:23PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > > 2.6.22 is about 5-7 days away afaics; so it will have had around 73 days > > > to get finished. > > > > > > Final devel freeze for F8 currently is 24 October 2007 -- that's 114 > > > days away from now; minus those ~6 days until 2.6.22; that leaves around > > > 108 days for 2.6.23 to mature in time for the F8 freeze. I'd say that > > > should work out when I look at the numbers from recent kernels found above. > > The concerns I have is that summertime is usually a slower period. > > People go to conferences, summits, beaches a lot more, so it could > > drag out a little. > > You have a point there -- just look at the numbers from 2.6.18 above > (2.6.17 was 18.06.2006) and one ca see that 2.6.18 took a bit longer. > But anyway: actually, Red Hat was at least partly responsible for why .18 dragged out a bit too. When Linus & Andrew found out we were going to base RHEL5 on it, they wanted to be sure that the final .18 on which we built was fairly solid. During -rc for that kernel quite a few nasty long-drawn out bugs were found and fixed iirc. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
