Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:51:11 +0100 (MET) | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: I will _not_ start accepting patches! |
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On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 2.2.0 may be out, but we're still in "serious bugfixes only" mode - and > will be so for all of the 2.2.x series until I open up 2.3.x. I'm not > interested in patches unless you can clearly show that the patches fix a > _serious_ bug.
How serious is _serious_?
> Basically, I don't expect to release a 2.2.1 in several weeks, unless > something _really_ bad comes up. And even then, 2.2.1 will just be a > serious fix release - there is absolutely no point in sending me patches > now that you wouldn't have sent for 2.2.0-final.
Sounds reasonable.
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> In short: let us find the _real_ problems first. Further development is > stopped intil that happens, because I'm NOT willing to have any new > interactions until all the old ones are resolved.
Sounds like a fully ok solution.
The main issue is, however: when will v2.3.x be opened up? Maybe we should have some kind of wild wish-list/death-list brainstorm here before v2.3.x opens up?
I'd really like to know what you believe to be the main-issues that we need to deal with in v2.3, and what the schedule should be for it.
Personally, I think that the development time for v2.3 must be significantly shorter than the one for v2.1, and more focused on a narrow set of important improvements, apart from obvious bugfixes and new drivers.
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