Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:47:30 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: New NEW development model |
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:06:42PM -0400, John Richard Moser wrote: > In lieu of the recent unpleasantness[1] about the new development model, > and of some unexpected nastiness[2] as well, I propose that a very > slight modification be made to the current development model. This > would merge the previous and new development models (as far as my > understanding is on them) and create a solution for all. > [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/22/497 > [2] http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/26/155 > Previously, there were "Stable" and "Development" branches. The > "Stable" branches, such as 2.2 and 2.4, would stagnate, and rarely have > backported features. The "Development" branches such as 2.3 and 2.5 > would be hammered and mixed with patches, then cleaned up until they > were fairly stable. Then they'd be hammered with more patches, then > cleaned up, then frozen, cleaned up until "stable" and then released.
This is not useful to distinguish your "suggestion" from the status quo.
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