Re: Future Linux devel. Kernels

From: Marco Colombo (marco@esi.it)
Date: Mon May 08 2000 - 05:28:27 EST


On Sun, 7 May 2000, Ron Van Dam wrote:

>
> 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.

This has been already discussed in the past. See
http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2000week02/0292.html
(and follow-ups)
http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2000week03/0261.html
(and follow-ups)
http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2000week04/0055.html
(and follow-ups)

.TM.

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