From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261500AbTJMGgl (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 02:36:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261503AbTJMGgl (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 02:36:41 -0400 Received: from dsl092-053-140.phl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.53.140]:54214 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261500AbTJMGgj (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 02:36:39 -0400 From: Rob Landley Reply-To: rob@landley.net To: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Deja vu... Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:53:58 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310122353.58935.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Correct me if I'm wrong, but I vaguely remember back at the end of 1998 the big "let's ship 2.2" push crescendoed towards the end of the year after two and a half years of development, there was the big push to ship it by christmas, then by new years, and after missing both deadlines it shipped a dot-zero release in january 1999, followed shortly thereafter by a "brown paper bag" bugfix release. The big "let's ship 2.4" push crescendoed towards the end of 2000, after about two and a half years of development (give or take the 2.2 stabilization period before 2.3 forked off), there was a big push to ship it by christmas, then by new years, and after missing both deadlines it shipped a dot-zero at the start of january 2001, followed by the brown paper bag... It's now coming up on two and a half years of development towards 2.6. It's getting towards the end of the year. (I take Linus is aiming to have the 2.6 release out by this christmas? ;) Does this seem kind of familiar to anyone else...? Rob (I don't remember if 2.1 had a new feature freeze a year or so before the final code freeze the way 2.3 and 2.5 did, but it does seem we've got a pattern going here. But then I'm sleep-deprived right now, and could easily be imagining it...)