Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2001 04:08:06 -0500 | From | Svein Erik Brostigen <> | Subject | Re: Release Policy [was: Linux 2.4.16 ] |
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Allan Sandfeld wrote:
>On Tuesday 27 November 2001 09:02, Svein Erik Brostigen wrote: > >>What really scares me is not so much the way the kernels are numbered as >>the way features gets added to >>the kernels. >> >The problem is that for kernels new features _are_ bug-fixes. Like the new >vm, work-around for discovered bugs in hardware, etc., etc. >I an way what should't be done in a -rc release is new fixing features, but >only the fixing _of_ features. ;-) > Hmmm... workarounds are not new features, but bug-fixes ;-) The new vm is not a *new* feature, it is just a different vm than the old. Even if you treat it as a new feature, it should then be incorporated into a new-feature release, i.e not in a 2.4.10.4, but maybe in what would have been a 2.4.11.0.
I'm not going to be anal about this, but a more structured way of handling new features/bug-fixes and release numbering would be nice. A lot easier to know what you are programming against and what you are installing/testing.
-- Regards Svein Erik
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