Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:18:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Felipe Alfaro Solana <lkml@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: starting with 2.7
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:

> Stabilizing, for me at least, means fixing bugs, not adding new features 
> (unless those new features are totally necessary).

The definition of "totally necessary" is going to vary
from user to user.  For some people, the ability to
use AGP on a system with more than 4GB RAM is necessary,
leading to the recent API change.

> Thus, I don't see how freezing the 2.6 codebase, waiting some time for 
> bugs to get fixed and things to settle down, then forking off 2.7 could 
> be a non-sense.

Hey, that's what we do between 2.6.N and 2.6.(N+1) ;)

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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