Re: Release Policy [was: Linux 2.4.16 ]

[Svein Erik Brostigen <svein.brostigen@oracle.com>]

Allan Sandfeld wrote:

>On Tuesday 27 November 2001 09:02, Svein Erik Brostigen wrote:
>
>>What really scares me is not so much the way the kernels are numbered as
>>the way features gets added to
>>the kernels.
>>
>The problem is that for kernels new features _are_ bug-fixes. Like the new 
>vm, work-around for discovered bugs in hardware, etc., etc. 
>I an way what should't be done in a -rc release is new fixing features, but 
>only the fixing _of_ features. ;-)
>
Hmmm... workarounds are not new  features, but bug-fixes ;-)
The new vm is not a *new* feature, it is just a different vm than the 
old. Even if you treat it as a new
feature, it should then be incorporated into a new-feature release, i.e 
not in a 2.4.10.4, but maybe in what
would have been a 2.4.11.0.

I'm not going to be anal about this, but a more structured way of 
handling new features/bug-fixes and release
numbering would be nice. A lot easier to know what you are programming 
against and what you are
installing/testing.


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Regards
Svein Erik

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