Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759873AbXHaT3W (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:29:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751202AbXHaT3J (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:29:09 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:33283 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750928AbXHaT3H (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:29:07 -0400 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:29:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Jeff Garzik cc: "Robert P. J. Day" , Randy Dunlap , Simon Arlott , sam@ravnborg.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Stefan Richter , Adrian Bunk , Gabriel C , netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus In-Reply-To: <46D858A9.4080506@garzik.org> Message-ID: References: <469E75AA.7040109@pimpmylinux.org> <20070718134012.cde2f956.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <469E7BE1.6090401@garzik.org> <20070718210903.GM3801@stusta.de> <20070719054742.GN3801@stusta.de> <469F240E.9040205@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070719083109.13b2ab56.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <469FE045.3070403@simon.arlott.org.uk> <20070831102527.09fb42c0.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <46D858A9.4080506@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1020 Lines: 24 On Aug 31 2007 14:06, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> something like BROKEN, though, has *nothing* to do with maturity. a >> feature can be any of those maturity levels, and simultaneously be >> BROKEN. i consider BROKEN to be what i call a "status", and different >> status levels might be the default of normal, or KIND_OF_FLAKY or >> TOTALLY_BORKED -- that's where BROKEN would fit in. > > BROKEN is definitely a maturity level. A more accurate description would be > BITROTTING perhaps. The code in question has passed through bleeding -> > experimental -> stable, and come out the other side. Software is quite unlike the art of medicine. There, you would go from 'stable' to 'broken', then someone 'experiments' with you, and if it's a bad day, you bleed out. :) Jan -- - 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/