From 5645a717c6ee61e67d38aa9f15cb9db074e1e99d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Loeffler Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 21:53:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: HOWTO: remove obsolete info about regression postings corbet@lwn.net told me that these regression postings haven't happened for several years. So i think we can remove it. Signed-off-by: Peter Loeffler Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/HOWTO | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/HOWTO b/Documentation/HOWTO index d5a699d5a551..ef2ff1e9d3e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/HOWTO +++ b/Documentation/HOWTO @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ apply a patch. If you do not know where you want to start, but you want to look for some task to start doing to join into the kernel development community, go to the Linux Kernel Janitor's project: - http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors + http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors It is a great place to start. It describes a list of relatively simple problems that need to be cleaned up and fixed within the Linux kernel source tree. Working with the developers in charge of this project, you @@ -250,11 +250,6 @@ process is as follows: release a new -rc kernel every week. - Process continues until the kernel is considered "ready", the process should last around 6 weeks. - - Known regressions in each release are periodically posted to the - linux-kernel mailing list. The goal is to reduce the length of - that list to zero before declaring the kernel to be "ready," but, in - the real world, a small number of regressions often remain at - release time. It is worth mentioning what Andrew Morton wrote on the linux-kernel mailing list about kernel releases: -- 2.39.5