Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:36:48 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my! |
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Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... > attributes would have two critical and non-negotiable properties: > > 1) they would be entirely orthogonal to one another, and > 2) they can be assigned at most one of a pre-defined set of values
If they are fully orthogonal to another, then they are also nonexclusive. You want them to be mutual exclusive, not orthogonal.
... > experimental -> normal (stable) -> deprecated -> obsolete > > it's a natural progression and, at any point, a feature cannot > possibly have more than one maturity value. it would be as absurd as > saying that someone was a teenager *and* was a twenty-something at the > same time.
Keep in mind though that 'experimental', in the context of Linux kernel features, has nothing to do with the age of a feature. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== =--= ----= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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