Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"

Chuck Ebbert
2004-10-27T00:02:49Z

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 at 10:37:06 -0700 William Lee Irwin III wrote:

>> "It works for me" doesn't cut it in the OS world.
>
> It's an existence proof spanning a wide swath of architectures. If
> you are not seeing similar results, send bugreports.

I don't neeed to send in bug reports, there are plenty on l-k
right now:

- LVM is currently broken in 2.6.9-mm1
- the RTC and NMI code have a race condition between them
- NFS mount won't accept a FQDN over 50 bytes (patch was
sent and utterly ignored, then recently reposted)
- cdrom driver thinks non-mt. rainier drives are capable

> Point releases are in fact updated and maintained. Those updates
> are given the name of the next point release.

Are you saying people who encounter bugs in 2.6.9 should wait for
2.6.10? ...and when they find bugs in _that_ release they should keep
waiting? In other words, Zeno was right after all?

--Chuck Ebbert 26-Oct-04 17:23:57