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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:23:54 -0700 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@...mhuis.info> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, stable@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> Subject: Re: [stable] no announce mails for "older" stable-releases on linux-kernel-announce (Was: Re: Linux 2.6.20.16) On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 08:42:29AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 16.08.2007 08:29, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 08:12:07AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> On 16.08.2007 07:43, Willy Tarreau wrote: > >>> I've just released Linux 2.6.20.16. This version catches up with 2.6.21.7. > >>> I hope to issue newer releases soon with next batches of pending patches. > >>> > >>> I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch between > >>> 2.6.20.15 and 2.6.20.16. > >>> [...] > >> Just wondering -- Kernels like this (or 2.6.16.x, 2.6.21.x as well as > >> 2.6.22.x once 2.6.23 got released) don't get announced on > >> linux-kernel-announce. Is that on purpose or a misbehavior of scripts > >> that create the messages for linux-kernel-announce? > > even simpler : I've never been aware of linux-kernel-announce. It's > > possible that only Linus sends there and that even the -stable team > > does not use/know about it either. > > Mails for the current stable-releases get out there -- e.g. I received a > "Linux kernel 2.6.22.3 released" not that long ago (that particular one > was broken, but that's another story mentioned somewhere else on LKML > already). > > If just seems that 2.6.21.x (or 2.6.20.x or 2.6.16.x) don't get > mentioned on the list because some script likely does a check like this: > > if 2.6.22.3 > 2.6.20.16; > then > # don't send mail > exit > fi > > >> > If the latter: are those scripts available somewhere? > > we all have somewhat different scripts. [...] > > I tend to think it's a script that runs on a server site somewhere to > generates those mails, as they contain the text: Yes, it's something on kernel.org, I don't do anything to generate a message to be sent on the -announce mailing list. Perhaps you need to ask the kernel.org maintainers about this. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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