Hi Jonathan :) On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:18:09 +0200 > Luis de Bethencourt <luis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Here's a set of changes updating Documentation/development-process. >> I have update kernel releases. > > I'm not convinced that the kernel version examples need to be updated all > that often - but I don't see that it hurts anything either. One thing, > though: I understand, and when I sent the patch I was aware you could have said you weren't interested. Should've asked before spending time on it, but then, it wasn't that much time either. > >> @@ -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): > > A more useful exercise would have been to update things for the post-2.6 > era; there will be no more "final 2.6.x" releases. Would you be interested > in cleaning up that kind of stuff? Otherwise I guess I'll get to it > eventually. > I can do this. I was reading the file to learn about it myself, so I can change it once I learn. > One other thing: > >> -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. > > Here you took out the 2.6.34.x stable updates, but left that last sentence > as a sort of dangling reference. If we really need to pull this forward, > let's do the whole job. > Yes, I did this because there hasn't been a final release for 2.6.38 yet. I will remove this line and update the above mentioned. > Thanks, > > jon > No problem, my pleasure :) Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
