Crazy idea

[Hans de Goede]

Hi all,

Reading the thread about adding support to the kernel spec file to build a 
vanilla kernel, I had this crazy (really crazy) idea:

Wouldn't it be great to share one kernel package or atleast one kernel source 
(as in pristine source + patches) between different distro's?

The kernel is a _very_ important and complicated piece of software, which 
requires many many eyes, I'm sure that many kernel bugs are hitting more then 
one distro, and some are fixed with distro specific patches in one distro, but 
not in the next.

So in an ideal word all distro's would have one kernel with a team made of the 
current maintainers from all distros  working on it. I know this is impossible 
taking the different rate of changes between distro's but maybe ubuntu + suse? 
+ Fedora could use a common kernel source?

I know this is a really long shot, but if we could pull it off it would be 
really great.

As said a really crazy (as in probably undoable) idea. So if not this, then 
what can be done to work better together on the kernel side of distro's, maybe 
a distro-kernel-maintainers-list at kernel.org?

And maybe also a common bugzilla?

Call me crazy but I think a lot could be gained here.

Regards,

Hans