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Embedded Linux Flag Version

Posted Nov 4, 2010 23:28 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Embedded Linux Flag Version by jengelh
Parent article: Embedded Linux Flag Version

For embedded developers, Greg declaring that .35 is almost past its time (meaning that he'll stop changing it) might be seen as a feature.

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Posted Nov 5, 2010 2:03 UTC (Fri) by ewan (subscriber, #5533) [Link]

Does rather make one wonder who the community developers are in the sentence:

industry and community developers agree to work together to maintain a long-term stable branch of the flag version of the kernel

If that's not a reference to GregKH's stable branches, what is it a reference to?

Embedded Linux Flag Version

Posted Nov 5, 2010 2:08 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

Greg doesn't need to be the only one maintaining a stable branch. He (and his employers) choose which ones he works to maintain, but he has been willing to hand over maintinance of older branches to other people in the past.