Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:36:15 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: starting with 2.7 |
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On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 09:03:32PM +0100, Maciej Soltysiak wrote: > I was wondering in the tram today are we close to branching > off to 2.7 > Do the mighty kernel developers have solid plans, ideas, etc > to start experimental code
I have a plan to never ever stop experimental code, which is to actually move on the 2.6.x.y strategy if no one else does and these kinds of complaints remain persistent and become more widespread.
There is a standard. Breaking things and hoping someone cleans up later doesn't work. So it has to be stable all the time anyway, and this is one of the observations upon which the "2.6 forever" theme is based. Frozen "minimal fix trees" for the benefit of those terrified of new working code (or alternatively, the astoundingly risk-averse) are a relatively straightforward theme, which kernel maintainers should be fully able to faithfully develop.
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