Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758563AbXKGXAe (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 18:00:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753811AbXKGXA1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 18:00:27 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:50410 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753473AbXKGXA0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 18:00:26 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: ciol Subject: [poll] Is the megafreeze development model broken? Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:56:57 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 91.164.115.245 User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070622) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 794 Lines: 17 Hi, I'd like to ask you a few questions: * Do you like the way linux distributions integrate the kernel? * Wouldn't you prefer they ship with the stable and still maintained 2.6.16.X, while providing optionally the latest kernel for those who want or just have a new hardware? * Do you think the megafreeze development model [1] and the "I don't trust in upstream" development model are broken? (And why) [1] http://www.modeemi.fi/~tuomov/b/archives/2007/03/03/T19_15_26/ (I'm going to ask this for several projects, not only the kernel) - 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/