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Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:48:36 -0500
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel
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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).

I was actually thinking of Rusty's module code... I do every time I have 
to build an initrd file by hand "Although the syntax is similar to the 
older /etc/modules.conf, there are many features missing."

-- 
    -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
  last possible moment - but no longer"  -me

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