[ANNOUNCE] Extended stable support for Linux 3.5 (linux-3.5.y-ext.z)

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi Herton,

Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:

> I plan to do a similar workflow as to what is done today with current
> stable releases. I'll send email notifications to everyone involved in
> each patch when it's added to 3.5 queue, and post the patches for review
> for each release cycle. Just versioning will be slightly different,
> every version is planned to be tagged as v3.5.7-ext.<release number>,
> ext meaning extended, 3.5.7 was the last stable kernel in 3.5 kernel and
> should remain constant.

Thanks for your work.  Is there a reason not to work with Greg to
release these on kernel.org with increasing 3.5.8, 3.5.9, etc version
numbers?

Curious,
Jonathan