Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Oct 2004 03:40:04 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: My thoughts on the "new development model" |
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On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:57:03AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 11:52:50PM +0200, Espen Fjellv?r Olsen wrote: >... > > A 2.7 should be created where all new experimental stuff is merged > > into it, and where people could begin to think new again. > > This could be true if the release cycle was shorter. But once 2.7 comes > out, many developpers will only focus on their development and not on > stabilizing 2.6 as much as today.
2.6.9 -> 2.6.10-rc1: - 4 days - > 15 MB patches
It's a bit optimistic to call this amount of change "stabilizing".
2.6 is corrently more a development kernel than a stable kernel.
The last bug I observed personally was the problem with suspending when using CONFIG_REGPARM=y together with Roland's waitid patch which was added in 2.6.9-rc2. If I'd used 2.6.9 with the same .config as 2.6.8.1, this was simple one more bug...
IMHO Andrew+Linus should open a short-living 2.7 tree soon and Andrew (or someone else) should maintain a 2.6 tree with less changes (like Marcelo did and does with 2.4).
> Willy
cu Adrian
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