Patrick McHardy's blog

I've completed the move of (most of) the netfilter repositories to git today. I still need to change the email notification script to make the commit emails more readable. They don't look very nice by default and I made it even worse. For today my limit of the amount of shell scripts I can look at is reached though.

These were the last SVN repositories I was using. I'm tempted to leave a long rant about SVN, but its probably better to simply forget about it as quickly as possible :)

Next I'll try if I can manage to roll a release candidate for iptables. We're currently releasing too infrequently. Since we're usually merging at least one new extension or revision per kernel release, there also should be one iptables release per kernel version, so users can actually use new things. The ideal time for this would be shortly before kernel releases, since that allows us to merge userspace extensions for things targeted at the next kernel release early enough so they can be used for testing. So thats what I'll try to do in the future. Luckily we didn't merge anything requiring new userspace extensions during the last merge window, so we won't need a new release for 2.6.26.