Re: The return of the return of crunch time (2.5 merge candidate list 1.6)

[Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>]

On Friday 25 October 2002 21:42, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Rob Landley wrote:
> >Reiser4 is probably in this category as well, since Reiser3 went into
> >the 2.4 stable series and Reiser4 claims to be a seperate filesystem
> >(like EXT2 and EXT3).  Add in the fact that Hans Reiser still hasn't
> >produced a patch yet, and the decision's pretty easy.  (If you disagree,
> >yell out now...)
>
> We will probably release a "very beta" not intended for inclusion on the
> 27th, and ship a patch for inclusion on Halloween before midnight in
> some time zone.
...
> Not sure you want to ship a 3.0 without it.

What I want is irrelevant, it's Linus's call.  I'm just doing a little 
volunteer secretarial work until his return.

I'll put out one more version of the list this evening, and possibly one more 
on Monday if Linus hasn't replied to it by then and there are significant 
objections.  But that's it.

> How do I put it.  I'm the last straggler coming back from the hunt, and
> I've got what looks like it might be a wooly mammoth on my shoulders,
> and my tribesmen are complaining that I'm late for dinner.

Well you are. :)

Nice mammoth, though.

> Think thoughts of the poor hungry Microsoft tribe...

What, as in "glad we're not them"?  (I suppose thanksgiving is coming up.  But 
the holiday in question is Halloween.  Celebration of sweet tooth, not 
generic gluttony.  We americans put enough effort into this area we need 
specific holidays for the aspects of it, dont'cha know. :)

> Think thoughts of Microsoft...
...
> Think thoughts of Microsoft's...

And spoil my appetite for dinner?

I haven't personally been motivated by the potential for microsoft to make any 
sort of technical achievement since...  At least 1996, probably earlier.  I'm 
not thinking about Microsoft, I'm thinking about Linux.

> Oh, and it has features too, not just performance....

I'm all for it.  I just can't put a patch on the list that doesn't exist yet.  
(I suppose the entry could say "go bug Hans for a patch"... :)

I'll think of something...

> Hans

Rob

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