Notification of ABI breaking updates

[Soren Hansen]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:59:48AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
>> Some third parties want to provide modules compiled against our
>> stable release kernels.  To make this process more streamlined, I'm
>> wondering if some sort of announcement could be made when ABI
>> breaking updates are afoot (like e.g. when they're uploaded to
>> -proposed or to the security buildd) or when they actually land (in
>> case of embargoed uploads which we - obviously - can't announce ahead
>> of time)?
 
>> If you have better ideas, please shout.
> Would probably be best to just have them sub to a list that provides
> this information, and filter on the kernel itself. We don't have
> anything in place to announce this.

Does such a list exist? -changes doesn't show things until they're
uploaded and they'd like to know ahead of time so that they can have
their modules ready when our kernels are. I've not been able to find an
announcement list for uploads to -proposed.

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Soren Hansen               | 
Virtualisation specialist  | Ubuntu Server Team
Canonical Ltd.             | http://www.ubuntu.com/
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