[kernel-sec-discuss] improved upstream tracking

Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com
Mon Nov 16 21:53:37 UTC 2009


since it has been quite useful tracking upstream stable releases lately,
would it make sense to give that it's own line.  right now, the
'upstream' line is often very cluttered.  an example improvement would
be:

  upstream-mainline: released (2.6.32-rc4) []
  upstream-stable: released (2.6.31.5) []

or since there are multiple stable releases:

  2.6.27-upstream-stable:
  2.6.30-upstream-stable: released (2.6.30.8) []
  2.6.31-upstream-stable: released (2.6.31.5) []

linux-next could also be tracked, but i don't know if that would
provide anything useful:

  upstream-next: pending []

the boilerplate could be updated in sync with upstream changes; i.e when
an old upstream-stable is no longer supported, it would be removed from
the boilerplate, and when a new upstream-stable is released it gets
added to boilerplate.

just some thoughts on streamlining things.  let me know what you
think.

mike



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