From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
Netfilter Development Mailinglist
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: next iptables release
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:08:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C251DD.3020309@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0903191456190.27642@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 2009-03-19 14:55, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
>
>> Object files are a completely different questions. We've had tons of crap
>> in there for unmerged patches that we did later merge and had to change
>> the API, which caused "breakage" for people.
>>
>
> Yes, but we can, and specifically I do, expect Pablo to fabricate
> something better, more consistent, and which has been reviewed with
> regard to the 'guideline checklist' than the unreviewed rotting
> bits that used to be in the past POM tree.
>
I do to, but I don't see why we should risk it. Its just as well possible
that someone testing it thinks of a great feature that would perfectly fit
in, but needs ABI changes. The -rc phase is for testing and also fixing
and changing things, releasing userspace before the kernel part is set in
stone is unnecessarily reducing the short amount of time we have for this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-19 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-19 8:31 next iptables release Patrick McHardy
2009-03-19 10:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-19 10:06 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-19 10:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-19 11:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-19 12:56 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-19 12:51 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2009-03-19 12:55 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-19 13:10 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2009-03-19 13:16 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-19 13:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-19 13:56 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-19 13:45 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-19 13:55 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-19 14:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-19 14:08 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-03-20 13:24 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2009-03-20 14:25 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-19 13:55 ` [PATCH] iptables: avoid compile warnings for iptc_insert_chain Christoph Paasch
2009-03-23 12:51 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-21 14:46 ` next iptables release Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2009-03-23 13:09 ` Patrick McHardy
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-24 11:19 Patrick McHardy
2009-11-24 15:07 Jan Engelhardt
2009-11-24 15:13 ` Patrick McHardy
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