Subject: Re: starting with 2.7
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
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On Gwe, 2005-01-07 at 17:34, John Richard Moser wrote:
> My scheme involved a 6 month release cycle supporting kernels with
> bugfixes for the prior 18 months (3 releases), though if you're really
> committed to hardware driver backporting, I guess it can be done in the
> actiwve "Stable" branch.

18 months is as good as supporting a seperate product line. Also you
forgot to provide the engineering resources for your plan and to fund
them 8)

> to load up maintainers with a billion hours of backporting; but I don't
> want to load distributors with excess work either.

Distributors get paid by their customers to do the long term backporting
and careful change control for big business. We take it as given that
its -our- problem not the software developers.


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