Linux 2.4, maintenance and succession

Posted by Alan Cox, at Advogato: “Linus will be releasing a 2.4.14 and probably a 2.4.15 finishing off the VM stability work and other rough corners. At that point the 2.5 kernel tree will be opened. There is a lot stuff queued for 2.5. It isn’t going to be possible or sensible to throw it all into 2.5.0. One of the tasks is to put changes together in the right order.

Marcelo Tosatti will be the head maintainer over the 2.4 stable kernel tree. This is not the giant change it may seem from the outside.”