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To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Some thoughts about stable kernel development 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Nov 2003 19:50:00 GMT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 19:50:00 GMT, John Bradford said:
> This does highlight a real issue - I am concerned by the number of
> posts on sites like lwn.net saying things like, "Oh, I'm using 2.6 as
> my standard kernel now", when it is clear that a lot of those users
> simply do not understand the issues.

On the other hand, Linux is about freedom, even if it's the freedom
to shoot yourself in the foot.

I really don't see that we need to do much of anything to change our
development scheme.  I think that James Bourne's -uv patch series
is all that's needed, and that the only thing we need to do is make
sure there's resources available to keep it going (find it a home
on the www.kernel.org server, provide a link for it so people can
actually *find* it, and somehow provide for continuity in case James
gets hit by a bus or something equally unfortunate.


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