Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261338AbUJZQ7Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:59:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261339AbUJZQ7Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:59:16 -0400 Received: from sj-iport-1-in.cisco.com ([171.71.176.70]:37164 "EHLO sj-iport-1.cisco.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261338AbUJZQ7N (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:59:13 -0400 X-BrightmailFiltered: true Reply-To: From: "Hua Zhong" To: "'John Richard Moser'" Cc: =?gb2312?B?J0VzcGVuIEZqZWxsduZyIE9sc2VuJw==?= , Subject: RE: My thoughts on the "new development model" Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:58:41 -0700 Organization: Cisco Systems Message-ID: <014d01c4bb7d$0baba180$ca41cb3f@amer.cisco.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gb2312" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 In-Reply-To: <417E7EE6.50900@comcast.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4939.300 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 831 Lines: 19 The fact is, these days nobody wants to be a stable-release maintainer anymore. It's boring. I don't agree that the new development is "better" in the sense of keeping stability and quality, but I can't blame Andrew for that. Let people do whatever they like to do, and they'll do a better job. So unless someone steps up and does it, there is no point in arguing. Of course, s/he won't be an "official maintainer" as endorsed/appointed by Linus like previous releases, but that might be better as it's more like "people choose XXX" instead of "Linus forces XXX onto people"? :) Hua - 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/