Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"

William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-27T18:01:49Z

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 10:57:45AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> So instead of kvetching, why don't you
> (a) Create your own stable series by snapshotting some 2.6.x tree
> every six months, and then maintain a set of bug-fix only patches
> against that 2.6.x tree? Then convince the security people to port to
> that particular 2.6.x-jrm tree?
> (b) Convince the security folks to try to get their patches into the
> mm- tree, for eventual inclusion into 2.6.
> (c) Some combination of the two.
> Either would probably be more likely to fulfill your needs than just
> whining about it.

Well, it's a bit worse than that, as the whining isn't really logically
self-consistent. Getting a few of these people in touch with reality so
they can actually move on to doing something productive looks like a
prerequisite to any kind of action on their parts.

But agreed on the principle of action being superior to complaining.

-- wli