Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760624AbXFSXhW (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:37:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756587AbXFSXhL (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:37:11 -0400 Received: from Mail.MNSU.EDU ([134.29.1.12]:38583 "EHLO mail.mnsu.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756471AbXFSXhK (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:37:10 -0400 Message-ID: <467868CF.30606@mnsu.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:37:51 -0500 From: Jeffrey Hundstad User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070618) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Lameter CC: Thomas Glanzmann , LKML Subject: Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch References: <20070618212524.GC16393@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <20070619061300.GK16393@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1106 Lines: 29 Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > > The other choice that we developers usually make is to run either testing > or unstable. "stable" is a synonym for obsolete ;-). > > I'm just not going to let this go. Stable is synonymous with, well ummm, "stable." That means that I don't have 3000 changes a month, it's secure and the unexpected doesn't happen. It means I can write a lecture explaining how git works. ...do updates... then expect my lecture to still work the next day. It means writing local shell scripts and expecting them to work until the NEXT stable release without changes. It means knowing what things WILL break if and when I do go to the next version. Stable is a CHOICE not a punishment. -- Jeffrey Hundstad PS. Running unstable on my laptop... and running stable on my servers. - 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/