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SubjectRe: starting with 2.7
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Felipe Alfaro Solana <lkml@mac.com> said:
> On 4 Jan 2005, at 14:27, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > Felipe Alfaro Solana <lkml@mac.com> said:

[...]

> >> I think new developments will force a 2.7 branch: when 2.6 feature set
> >> stabilizes, people will keep more time testing a stable, relatively
> >> static kernel base, finding bugs, instead of trying to keep up with
> >> changes.

> > And when 2.7 opens, very few developers will tend 2.6; and as 2.7
> > diverges from it, fewer and fewer fixes will find their way back. And
> > so you finally get a rock-stable (== unchanging) 2.6, but hopelessly
> > out of date and thus unfixable (if nothing else because there are no
> > people around who remember how it worked).

> I can see no easy solution for this... If Linus decides to fork off
> 2.7, development efforts will go into 2.7 and fixes should get
> backported to 2.6. If Linus decides to stay with 2.6, new development
> will have to be "conservative" enough not to break things that were
> working.

Exactly.

> I tend to prefer forking off 2.7: more agressive features can be
> implemented and tested without bothering disrupting the stable 2.6
> branch.

Have any particular features in mind? If you have some, you can fork off
your own BK repository and play there (wait... that is how (currently)
out-of-tree drivers are developed!). Or you could start an unofficial
experimental fork. If none of the above, I guess you'd just have to wait
until Our Fearless Leader decides it is time for 2.7.

Just forcing a 2.7 "because that'll stabilize 2.6" is nonsense. Because
then 2.6 won't stabilize any faster (probably slower).
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