2.6.27 kernel for F-9?

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 17.10.2008 16:10, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 08:03:39AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 06:33:49AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
>>> Anyone planning to respin the F-9 kernel with a .27 base? Webcams! :)
>> I'd recommend waiting until at least the first batch of -stable patches
>> is released.

Which BTW are being prepared right now ("Responses should be made by 
Sat, October 18, 18:00:00 UTC.").

> We're going to wait until F-8 is EOL before doing that in F-9.

EOL for F8 is round about around Christmas afaics. I suppose nobody 
wants to do such a big update right before the holidays. Thus it might 
get delayed until early January; even more due to the time in 
updates-testing. 2.6.28 by then will be in its final stages or might be 
released already.

IOW: The plan sounds quite odd to me. Even worse: Users will get quite 
confused -- they are used to getting new major kernels as regular Fedora 
update round about 2-4 weeks after upstream released them.


So why not push 2.6.27 for F9 soon? Chances are good that by putting it 
in updates-testing for F9 soon we'll find some bugs in 2.6.27 that we 
can fix in both F9 and rawhide -- thus the kernel for F10 will get in 
better shape for release.

Just my 2 cent.

CU
knurd