linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] Extended stable support for Linux 3.5 (linux-3.5.y-ext.z)

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Date:	Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:22:03 -0800
From:	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...il.com>
To:	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Extended stable support for Linux 3.5
 (linux-3.5.y-ext.z)

Hi Herton,

Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:

> I plan to do a similar workflow as to what is done today with current
> stable releases. I'll send email notifications to everyone involved in
> each patch when it's added to 3.5 queue, and post the patches for review
> for each release cycle. Just versioning will be slightly different,
> every version is planned to be tagged as v3.5.7-ext.<release number>,
> ext meaning extended, 3.5.7 was the last stable kernel in 3.5 kernel and
> should remain constant.

Thanks for your work.  Is there a reason not to work with Greg to
release these on kernel.org with increasing 3.5.8, 3.5.9, etc version
numbers?

Curious,
Jonathan
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