From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 09:53:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D96EE3.9050101@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709011514200.11617@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Sep 1 2007 11:47, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>> given the possible
>>> interpretations of EXPERIMENTAL that i hadn't considered until now,
>>> maybe it really *does* make sense to tag something as both
>>> EXPERIMENTAL and, say, DEPRECATED (does it?).
>> In theory maybe, for communication purposes perhaps rather not.
>
> devfs would have been a good starting point for
> EXPERIMENTAL && (DECPREATED || OBSOLETE).
Humorous or not, this serves to indicate how synonymous 'deprecated' and
'obsolete' are.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-01 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-31 21:38 maturity and status and attributes, oh my! Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-31 22:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-01 6:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-01 9:06 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-31 22:36 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-01 1:23 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 9:14 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-01 9:21 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 9:47 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-01 9:54 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 13:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-01 13:53 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-09-01 10:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-01 10:52 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 11:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-01 13:44 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-09-01 13:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-01 14:27 ` Stefan Richter
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709010435070.26137@localhost.localdomain>
2007-09-01 9:27 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-01 9:41 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 17:22 ` Dave Jones
2007-09-01 17:58 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 18:06 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 18:24 ` Dave Jones
2007-08-31 23:02 ` Dave Jones
2007-09-01 8:34 ` Robert P. J. Day
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-31 23:29 Mitchell Erblich
2007-09-01 1:33 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 6:39 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-01 7:02 ` Robert P. J. Day
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