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    SubjectRe: starting with 2.7
    On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 03:06:25 +0100, Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > On Monday 03 January 2005 14:24, Diego Calleja wrote:
    >
    > > I fully agree with WLI that the 2.4 development model and the
    > > backporting-mania created more problems than it solved, because in the real
    > > world almost everybody uses what distros ship, and what distros ship isn't
    > > kernel.org but heavily modified kernels, which means that the kernel.org
    > > was not really "well-tested" or it took much longer to become "well-tested"
    > > because it wasn't really being used.
    >
    > Backporting isn't the primary problem. The real problem were the huge time
    > intervals between stable releases. A new stable release brings a huge amount
    > of changes which got different levels of testing, which makes upgrading quite
    > an experience.
    > What we need are regular releases of stable kernels with a manageable amount
    > of changes and a development tree to pull these changes from. It's a bit
    > comparable to Debian testing/unstable. Changes go only from one tree to the
    > other if they fulfil certain criteria. The job of the stable tree maintainer
    > wouldn't be anymore to apply random patches sent to him, but to select
    > instead which patches to pull from the development tree.
    > This doesn't of course guarantees perfectly stable kernels, but it would
    > encourage more people to run recent stable kernels and avoids the huge steps
    > in kernel upgrades. The only problem is that I don't know of any source code
    > management system which supports this kind of development reasonably easy...

    It really makes sense.
    vanilla and -mm are already a kind of stable/unstale tree though.

    --
    Paolo
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