From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262974AbVAFUEM (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:04:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263014AbVAFUEJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:04:09 -0500 Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.202.64]:35528 "EHLO sccrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263001AbVAFUCY (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:02:24 -0500 Message-ID: <41DD9968.7070004@comcast.net> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:02:48 -0500 From: John Richard Moser User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041211) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maciej Soltysiak CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 References: <1697129508.20050102210332@dns.toxicfilms.tv> In-Reply-To: <1697129508.20050102210332@dns.toxicfilms.tv> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is gonna go on forever. I tried[1], but I guess development HAS to be in the "stable" branch and can't be shipped to a similarly managed "volatile" branch for development, since it obviously makes such a big difference to mainline kernel developers and less so to home users, third party developers, and businesses and institutions who rely on a mostly stable codebase to avoid surprise breakage. Is this a serious operating system or a running experiment? Running experiments have no place in production; if your "stable" mainline branch is going to continuously add and remove features and go through wild API and functionality changes, nobody is going to want to use it. Mozilla doesn't support IE's broken crap "because IE is a moving target." Unpredictable API changes and changes to the deep inner workings of the kernel will make the kernel "a moving target." If that's the route you take, it will become too difficult for people to develope for linux. [1] http://woct-blog.blogspot.com/2005/01/finally-new-pax.html Maciej Soltysiak wrote: | Hi, | | 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 | | Regards, | Maciej | | | - | To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in | the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org | More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html | Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | - -- All content of all messages exchanged herein are left in the Public Domain, unless otherwise explicitly stated. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB3ZlohDd4aOud5P8RAg02AJ0VhUkRyzvfXzHS8YkQgdWru+VpyQCcCrbA 3rQr6wgKPMLXAl79OsrwdBQ= =ci1u -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----