Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:57:45 -0400 | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: My thoughts on the "new development model" |
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On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 09:48:01AM -0400, John Richard Moser wrote: > > I for one don't give a damn. Bugs and how fast this development model > fix them aren't a concern to me; although I'd never slow down the bug > fixing process. My concern is getting a real stable tree for various > maintainers to base on, so that various patches for drivers, security > enhancements, and other things aren't scattered across versions and > impossible to patch together even when they're noninvasive to eachother. > > Have you stopped to consider that the features that are critical to me > are also holding me back from upgrading to the newer kernels? > Ironically, these are security features, and the newer kernels have > newer security fixes aside from new schedulers and other toys I could > really enjoy having around.
So instead of kvetching, why don't you
(a) Create your own stable series by snapshotting some 2.6.x tree every six months, and then maintain a set of bug-fix only patches against that 2.6.x tree? Then convince the security people to port to that particular 2.6.x-jrm tree?
(b) Convince the security folks to try to get their patches into the mm- tree, for eventual inclusion into 2.6.
(c) Some combination of the two.
Either would probably be more likely to fulfill your needs than just whining about it.
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