Re: starting with 2.7

[John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>]

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Alan Cox wrote:
| On Gwe, 2005-01-07 at 17:34, John Richard Moser wrote:
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|>My scheme involved a 6 month release cycle supporting kernels with
|>bugfixes for the prior 18 months (3 releases), though if you're really
|>committed to hardware driver backporting, I guess it can be done in the
|>actiwve "Stable" branch.
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| 18 months is as good as supporting a seperate product line. Also you
| forgot to provide the engineering resources for your plan and to fund
| them 8)
|
|

Hello??

The latest 2.0 version of the Linux kernel is:  	2.0.40 	2004-02-08
07:13 UTC 	F 	V 	VI 	  	Changelog

You have FOUR.  2.6, 2.4, 2.2, 2.0

In my scheme it's time to let go of 2.0; support moves to 2.6, 2.4, 2.2.
~ Development goes to 2.7, in the same way the 2.6 model is done now (so
that it's always usable and needs no feature freeze etc before release).
~ In 6 months, 2.2 support is dropped, support moves to 2.8, 2.4, 2.2
with development on 2.9.  Support includes bugfixes (security and
otherwise) only.

Quick observation

|>to load up maintainers with a billion hours of backporting; but I don't
|>want to load distributors with excess work either.
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| Distributors get paid by their customers to do the long term backporting
| and careful change control for big business. We take it as given that
| its -our- problem not the software developers.
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