From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: New NEW development model
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:47:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041026174730.GL17038@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <417E8422.3020009@comcast.net>
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:06:42PM -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
> In lieu of the recent unpleasantness[1] about the new development model,
> and of some unexpected nastiness[2] as well, I propose that a very
> slight modification be made to the current development model. This
> would merge the previous and new development models (as far as my
> understanding is on them) and create a solution for all.
> [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/22/497
> [2] http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/26/155
> Previously, there were "Stable" and "Development" branches. The
> "Stable" branches, such as 2.2 and 2.4, would stagnate, and rarely have
> backported features. The "Development" branches such as 2.3 and 2.5
> would be hammered and mixed with patches, then cleaned up until they
> were fairly stable. Then they'd be hammered with more patches, then
> cleaned up, then frozen, cleaned up until "stable" and then released.
This is not useful to distinguish your "suggestion" from the status quo.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-26 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-26 17:06 PROPOSAL: New NEW development model John Richard Moser
2004-10-26 17:47 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-10-26 18:24 ` John Richard Moser
2004-10-26 19:08 ` Josh Boyer
2004-10-26 19:24 ` John Richard Moser
2004-10-26 21:56 ` Bill Davidsen
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