linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: first tree

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Message-Id: <20080220084747.77553451.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:47:47 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: first tree

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:23:32 +1100 Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Hi Andy,
> 
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:04:36 +0000 Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org> wrote:
> >
> > As devout believers in testing things early we test -mm and -git releases
> > as they drop.  I am keen that we are able to continue this with the -next
> > tree once it gets going.  Having just pulled this tree its not obvious how
> > I would communicate which tree I had tested.  I guess we could use the
> > SHA1 of the actual head used, but that really is cumbersome for the poor
> > people who have to check the results and actually report things to lkml.
> 
> I hope I have addressed this issue by tagging each tree with its date
> i.e. todays was next-20080220.
> 
> > Also will you be producing any tarballs for these releases?  If so I
> > would say they would definatly need to be against some common base, like
> > against the nearest official tag "below".
> 
> I hadn't considered tarballs, but I will give it some thought.

I'd like to see tarballs too, please...

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~Randy
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