Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 12:23:29 +0100
From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>, Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel
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On Mon, 05 Dec 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >I do think the old model was better; by holding down major changes for 
> >six months or so after a new even release came out, people had a chance 
> >to polich the stable release, and developers had time to recharge their 
> >batteries so to speak, and to sit and think about what they wanted to 
> >do, without feeling the pressure to write code and submit it right away. 
> >Knowing that there's no place to send code for six months is a great aid 
> >to generating GOOD code.
> 
> It never worked that way, which is why the model changed.
> 
> Like it or not, developers would only focus on one release.  In the old 
> model, unstable things would get shoved into the stable kernel, because 
> people didn't want to wait six months.  And for the unstable kernel, it 
> would often be so horribly broken that even developers couldn't use it 
> for development (think 2.5.x IDE).

So why haven't the broken patches (yes, TCQ and all that, too) been
backed out at the time?

-- 
Matthias Andree
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