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SubjectRe: 2.2 missing features
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 06:55:32PM +0200, Alan Cox wrote:
> > In future it would be useful to adopt a policy to never accept changes for
> > 2.0 unless 2.1 has the equivalent bug fix/change
>
> Unfortunately this is completely impractical. 2.1.x is frequently not stable
> enough for some people to work on. Drivers are done 2.0.x first by most
> commercial oriented bodies and many users, all the network stack improvements
> for amateur radio where done 2.0.x first and ported into 2.1.x at the end
> of things after the updates had been available for 2.0.x for a year or so.

But the work has to be done anyways. If the people are not interested in
making their work usable for 2.<next stable release> that shows that they're
not interested in long-term maintainability of the feature, which raises
the question if the feature should be added at all.

And porting first is IMHO easier than to have to catchup later.

-Andi


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