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    SubjectRe: My thoughts on the "new development model"
    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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