Hi BALUG Volunteers:
In the process of confirming Andrew Morton as BALUG's speaker for June, Mr. Morton is curious to know what topics we would like him to cover and or any questions we may have for him. I'm not really the best person to give him guidance here so any help you guys can offer will be appreciated.
More on Andrew Morton here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Morton_(computer_programmer)
Thanks,
Andrew
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seems to me this question would be appropriate for the talk list.
here are questions that come to my mind: what are the three burningest needs that AM sees the community can help with (probably number one is testing...)? how can we users best help out (what's the contact path he prefers)? what are the biggest problems the linux using community presents to his development teams? what are the three most-asked-for new features? what are the three nearest-to-completion new features? what forks in the road(s) ahead? what's he got to say about embedded linux? what's the future of threading? what's the future approach to presenting management of multiple CPUs (i.e. some kind of synchronous/concurrent API)?
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 09:21 -0700, Andrew Fife wrote:
Hi BALUG Volunteers:
In the process of confirming Andrew Morton as BALUG's speaker for June, Mr. Morton is curious to know what topics we would like him to cover and or any questions we may have for him. I'm not really the best person to give him guidance here so any help you guys can offer will be appreciated.
More on Andrew Morton here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Morton_(computer_programmer)
Thanks,
Andrew
-- Andrew Fife Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway www.untangle.com/download
650.425.3327 desk 415.806.6028 cell
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2008/5/1 Andrew Fife afife@untangle.com:
In the process of confirming Andrew Morton as BALUG's speaker for June, Mr. Morton is curious to know what topics we would like him to cover and or any questions we may have for him. I'm not really the best person to give him guidance here so any help you guys can offer will be appreciated.
How about a review of recent history, for example on why the even/odd numbering for stable/development kernels has been dropped, and an explanation of what the new process is.
Mike
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Mike Higashi mhigashi@gmail.com wrote:
How about a review of recent history, for example on why the even/odd numbering for stable/development kernels has been dropped, and an explanation of what the new process is.
The even/odd numbering issue was pretty well resolved 3-4 years ago with the conclusion that two wildly diverging development lines (stable/development) is a Bad Idea. Hopefully nobody is still wondering why there's no 2.7.x.
http://kerneltrap.org/node/4100
I would be interested to hear Andrew talk about his own tree (-mm) and possibly other important trees he pulls from.