Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:08:19 +0100 (MET) | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: I will _not_ start accepting patches! |
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On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, David Weinehall wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > The main issue is, however: when will v2.3.x be opened up? Maybe > > we should have some kind of wild wish-list/death-list brainstorm > > here before v2.3.x opens up? > ^^^^ > I don't think we should do that here. Linux-kernel already > has far too much traffic. I'd be happy to set up a mailing > list for that purpose, however.
Ok, sounds reasonable.
> If I get at least 5 people in favor of such a list, I'll > immediately create linux-wish@nl.linux.org (or kernel-devel > or some other, better name).
Here's the first vote in favour.
> > I'd really like to know what you believe to be the main-issues that we > > need to deal with in v2.3, and what the schedule should be for it. > > > > Personally, I think that the development time for v2.3 must be > > significantly shorter than the one for v2.1, and more focused on a > > narrow set of important improvements, apart from obvious bugfixes > > and new drivers. > > One of the ways in which the 2.3 cycle can be shorter is > by only integrating stuff that's already being worked on > and is ready by the time 2.3.0 is forked off. Then we > integrate all those things within 5 revisions and start > debugging. Maybe we even want to distribute all of those > things in one big patch _before_ 2.3.0 is forked off.
Like devfs, reiserfs, lfa, ISDN, etc.?! Oh, and I hope NFS v3 will make it into v2.3... This kind of means that we leave all the size-expansion issues until v2.5?! That's ok for me, because I don't have a large machine with >1TB HD and >65536 users, but not everyone might be as happy... :)
Oh, I'd really like pcmcia support to become a part of the main kernel too. But maybe that's not our decision, but one for the pcmcia-team to make?!
> Anyway, the last thing we should do is keeping Linus from > his far-more-important 2.2 work...
Yup.
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