From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262133AbTKLQCw (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:02:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262360AbTKLQCw (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:02:52 -0500 Received: from as13-5-5.has.s.bonet.se ([217.215.179.23]:46996 "EHLO K-7.stesmi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262133AbTKLQCv (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:02:51 -0500 Message-ID: <3FB25A28.1070800@stesmi.com> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:04:56 +0100 From: Stefan Smietanowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Krzysztof Halasa CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Some thoughts about stable kernel development References: <3FAE9026.60500@stesmi.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Stefan Smietanowski writes: > > >>And then someone comes along and says that feature X isn't working in >>some version. He then reports that "it worked in a.b.c but then someone >>broke it for a.b.c+1 pre 1. Then you have to tell that person that >>a.b.c+1 pre 1 isn't newer than a.b.c. Messy. Very messy. > > > I think people using testing/ kernels are able to learn such things. The amount of mail coming to the list with FAQ like that shows that no, people aren't. Many are, some aren't. Some of those end up asking things that have been asked a thousand times. // Stefan