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    SubjectRe: Release Policy [was: Linux 2.4.16 ]
    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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    Svein Erik

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