From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8707 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2004 23:32:57 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 9 Jul 2004 23:32:57 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bj4rQ-0004wd-7z for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 23:32:56 +0000 Received: (qmail 20414 invoked by uid 89); 9 Jul 2004 23:32:55 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 29957 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2004 23:32:55 +0000 Message-ID: <40EF2BB8.9080007@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 19:35:20 -0400 From: Kumba Reply-To: kumba@gentoo.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20040709232251.GC31999@violet.grantgoodyear.org> In-Reply-To: <20040709232251.GC31999@violet.grantgoodyear.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Too many kernels? X-Archives-Salt: da85f46a-6e58-4e4d-a68f-c3067362e739 X-Archives-Hash: e7a62a1d1822abe82e2cf78c06887309 Grant Goodyear wrote: > # ls /usr/portage/sys-kernel -l | grep -v CVS | wc -l > 44 > > Anybody know which kernels are actually being used? Which have active > maintainers? Given the goal of a quick response to kernel > vulnerabilities, it seems clear that each kernel needs a redundancy of > two to three people who can update handle patches when the need arises. > (That doesn't mean we need 3*44 kernel devs; a high degree of > overlapping would be fine.) I'm probably going to dump mips-prepatch-sources (which is an empty directory anyways), as I've decided that maintaining -rc, -pre or -bk ebuilds becomes too much of a hassle as they move too quickly. --Kumba -- "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list