Re: Future Linux devel. Kernels

From: Adam (adam@eax.com)
Date: Sun May 07 2000 - 17:35:41 EST


> From my understanding the main reason why the production releases of new
> kernels is always delayed is because of the "just one more feature" problem.
> What about creating two new development kernels (2.5 and 2.7) at the same
> time and set fixed development goals of the 2.5 kernel before beginning
> work. Anything outside of the 2.5 goals must go into 2.7.

As a side note. We DO have two development trees. The stable tree 2.2.x
and the unsable 2.3.x. As you can see we had so far 15 new revisions of
stable tree, and over 3mb of new code in it.

-rw-r--r-- 1 korg korg 13080195 Jan 25 1999 linux-2.2.0.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 korg korg 16371764 May 3 17:22 linux-2.2.15.tar.gz

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