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Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:36:48 +0200
From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!
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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
...
> attributes would have two critical and non-negotiable properties:
> 
> 1) they would be entirely orthogonal to one another, and
> 2) they can be assigned at most one of a pre-defined set of values

If they are fully orthogonal to another, then they are also
nonexclusive.  You want them to be mutual exclusive, not orthogonal.

...
>   experimental -> normal (stable) -> deprecated -> obsolete
> 
>   it's a natural progression and, at any point, a feature cannot
> possibly have more than one maturity value.  it would be as absurd as
> saying that someone was a teenager *and* was a twenty-something at the
> same time.

Keep in mind though that 'experimental', in the context of Linux kernel
features, has nothing to do with the age of a feature.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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