Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Oct 1998 03:08:29 -0400 (EDT) | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: 2.2 missing features |
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On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Jeff Lightfoot wrote:
> With Michael Mueller's port of Dynamic IP hack (RST-provoking,...) to > 2.1.125 from 2.0.3x, I began wondering how many other features are going to > mysteriously disappear when 2.2 comes out. > > Are there many other features we need to work on porting to 2.1 that are > currently in 2.0? > > What can we do to keep this from happening in the 2.3 to 2.4/3.0 conversion? > Would it be reasonable to ask that there be patches for both stable and > development before a feature is added to the stable branch?
No.. Just keep the development periods small.. It's easier to forward port and less likely that people will write for the stable.
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