Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:10:46 -0700 | From | Michael Loftis <> | Subject | Re: Development tree, PLEASE? |
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--On January 20, 2006 2:03:52 PM -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> But you're perfectly happy to make the kernel developers do the > equivalent thing when they have to maintain 2 forks (a stable and devel). > Go back and look at the status of the 2.5 tree - there were *large* > chunks of time when 2.4 or 2.5 would get an important bugfix, but the > other tree wouldn't get it for *weeks* because of the hassle of > cross-porting the patch.
Weeks is better than never, and still better than commercial vendors. ;)
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