Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269210AbUJWDFV (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:05:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269256AbUJWDDZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:03:25 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:63430 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269127AbUJVXV3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:21:29 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:21:23 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Espen Fjellv?r Olsen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: My thoughts on the "new development model" Message-ID: <20041022232123.GF17038@holomorphy.com> References: <7aaed09104102213032c0d7415@mail.gmail.com> <7aaed09104102214521e90c27c@mail.gmail.com> <20041022224540.GE17038@holomorphy.com> <7aaed091041022155058d6135c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7aaed091041022155058d6135c@mail.gmail.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 904 Lines: 21 On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:45:40 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> We should write code, not blow release nomenclature smoke. On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:50:44AM +0200, Espen Fjellv?r Olsen wrote: > I'm sorry i cant contribute with any code, i'm not skilled enough to > do such a job, yet. > The only way i can contribute is to do testing, a release need > testing, testing and testing :) Isn't this just what motivates what's in the next release? If the patches weren't tested, why were they merged? Accidents can't be anticipated. How long are you going to wait for one to happen? Why expect one not to happen if you wait on the same code longer? -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/