Here's a set of changes updating Documentation/development-process.
I have update kernel releases.
Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <luis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Documentation/development-process/2.Process | 36 +++++++++++++++------------
1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/development-process/2.Process
b/Documentation/development-process/2.Process
index 4823577..2d79ddb 100644
--- a/Documentation/development-process/2.Process
+++ b/Documentation/development-process/2.Process
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ The kernel developers use a loosely time-based
release process, with a new
major kernel release happening every two or three months. The recent
release history looks like this:
+ 2.6.39 May 18, 2011
2.6.38 March 14, 2011
2.6.37 January 4, 2011
2.6.36 October 20, 2010
@@ -65,19 +66,18 @@ will get up to somewhere between -rc6 and -rc9
before the kernel is
considered to be sufficiently stable and the final 2.6.x release is made.
At that point the whole process starts over again.
-As an example, here is how the 2.6.38 development cycle went (all dates in
+As an example, here is how the 2.6.39 development cycle went (all dates in
2011):
- January 4 2.6.37 stable release
- January 18 2.6.38-rc1, merge window closes
- January 21 2.6.38-rc2
- February 1 2.6.38-rc3
- February 7 2.6.38-rc4
- February 15 2.6.38-rc5
- February 21 2.6.38-rc6
- March 1 2.6.38-rc7
- March 7 2.6.38-rc8
March 14 2.6.38 stable release
+ March 29 2.6.39-rc1, merge window closes
+ April 6 2.6.39-rc2
+ April 12 2.6.39-rc3
+ April 19 2.6.39-rc4
+ April 27 2.6.39-rc5
+ May 4 2.6.39-rc6
+ May 10 2.6.39-rc7
+ May 18 2.6.39 stable release
How do the developers decide when to close the development cycle and create
the stable release? The most significant metric used is the list of
@@ -103,13 +103,17 @@ numbering scheme. To be considered for an
update release, a patch must (1)
fix a significant bug, and (2) already be merged into the mainline for the
next development kernel. Kernels will typically receive stable updates for
a little more than one development cycle past their initial release. So,
-for example, the 2.6.36 kernel's history looked like:
+for example, the 2.6.38 kernel's history looked like:
- October 10 2.6.36 stable release
- November 22 2.6.36.1
- December 9 2.6.36.2
- January 7 2.6.36.3
- February 17 2.6.36.4
+ March 14 2.6.38 stable release
+ March 23 2.6.38.1
+ March 27 2.6.38.2
+ April 14 2.6.38.3
+ April 21 2.6.38.4
+ May 2 2.6.38.5
+ May 9 2.6.38.6
+ May 21 2.6.38.7
+ June 3 2.6.38.8
2.6.36.4 was the final stable update for the 2.6.36 release.
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