From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262378AbVADXhO (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:37:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262178AbVADXgn (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:36:43 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:3208 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262378AbVADXTz (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:19:55 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:18:42 -0500 (EST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: Felipe Alfaro Solana cc: Horst von Brand , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Adrian Bunk , William Lee Irwin III , Maciej Soltysiak , Andries Brouwer , William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 In-Reply-To: <6D2E0FC1-5EA5-11D9-A816-000D9352858E@mac.com> Message-ID: References: <200501042058.j04KwFED002211@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <6D2E0FC1-5EA5-11D9-A816-000D9352858E@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > Stabilizing, for me at least, means fixing bugs, not adding new features > (unless those new features are totally necessary). The definition of "totally necessary" is going to vary from user to user. For some people, the ability to use AGP on a system with more than 4GB RAM is necessary, leading to the recent API change. > Thus, I don't see how freezing the 2.6 codebase, waiting some time for > bugs to get fixed and things to settle down, then forking off 2.7 could > be a non-sense. Hey, that's what we do between 2.6.N and 2.6.(N+1) ;) -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan