Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jan 2005 02:17:52 -0500 | From | John Richard Moser <> | Subject | Re: starting with 2.7 |
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Alan Cox wrote: | On Gwe, 2005-01-07 at 17:34, John Richard Moser wrote: | |>My scheme involved a 6 month release cycle supporting kernels with |>bugfixes for the prior 18 months (3 releases), though if you're really |>committed to hardware driver backporting, I guess it can be done in the |>actiwve "Stable" branch. | | | 18 months is as good as supporting a seperate product line. Also you | forgot to provide the engineering resources for your plan and to fund | them 8) | |
Hello??
The latest 2.0 version of the Linux kernel is: 2.0.40 2004-02-08 07:13 UTC F V VI Changelog
You have FOUR. 2.6, 2.4, 2.2, 2.0
In my scheme it's time to let go of 2.0; support moves to 2.6, 2.4, 2.2. ~ Development goes to 2.7, in the same way the 2.6 model is done now (so that it's always usable and needs no feature freeze etc before release). ~ In 6 months, 2.2 support is dropped, support moves to 2.8, 2.4, 2.2 with development on 2.9. Support includes bugfixes (security and otherwise) only.
Quick observation
|>to load up maintainers with a billion hours of backporting; but I don't |>want to load distributors with excess work either. | | | Distributors get paid by their customers to do the long term backporting | and careful change control for big business. We take it as given that | its -our- problem not the software developers. | | |
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