Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:29:05 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus |
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On Aug 31 2007 14:06, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> something like BROKEN, though, has *nothing* to do with maturity. a >> feature can be any of those maturity levels, and simultaneously be >> BROKEN. i consider BROKEN to be what i call a "status", and different >> status levels might be the default of normal, or KIND_OF_FLAKY or >> TOTALLY_BORKED -- that's where BROKEN would fit in. > > BROKEN is definitely a maturity level. A more accurate description would be > BITROTTING perhaps. The code in question has passed through bleeding -> > experimental -> stable, and come out the other side.
Software is quite unlike the art of medicine. There, you would go from 'stable' to 'broken', then someone 'experiments' with you, and if it's a bad day, you bleed out. :)
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