> find these 12 people (but don't forget ALPHA, SPARC, etc.!), coordinate your efforts
> and convice Linus that you get his final patches before releasing.
>
> maybe Linus would be fine with a policy that the patch automatically gets released
> 12 hours later if he doesn't get any severe bug reports or fixes which *have* to be
> included... (but remember that if you find one bug every 12 hours we normal mortals
> never will see a new kernel release anymore;)
Don't try to stop the release of the pre-patches if they haven't been
"approved". Other people might like to downloaded the untested patches as
well (just like they do now).