Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"

William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-27T05:24:06Z

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:29:10AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> While a 2.7 series might provide developers with an "outlet"
>> for their creativity, it does not give users the availability
>> of the features they need.

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 07:13:42AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Rik, "new features" are what causes the kernel to be in permanent development
> mode. It happened to all of us that a new feature broke compatability with a
> patch or even caused a side effect. Users don't "need" new features, they
> *want* them. This is what makes them upgrade to the new release in a fast
> release model. If 2.4 had been released sooner, USB would never have made
> it in 2.2, and 2.2 users would have switched faster. I know people who still
> use 2.2 only on their dev systems because they don't need any upgrade.

The new features you're complaining about are astoundingly not the
causes of any of the bugs cited as critical issues in this thread.

It also appears that you have forgotten early 2.4 at the very least...

-- wli