On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> >
> > Why not just shut the door on new features after 6 months? Even if
> > they are things you personally would really like to see (like the I/O
> > and networking scaling changes), if they're not ready in time, they
> > have to wait for the next cycle.
>
> I wish I could do that.
>
> I'm a push-over and a wimp. And I love new features as much as the next
> guy.
Why don't you take a few item from the 2.5 todo list and start 2.5
already 'feature-freezed'? Being the list of changes short and
*known in advance*, it should be easy to port later 2.4.x stability
fixes to the new 2.5. So 2.6 release can be quite close in time.
Short todo list:
- BKL changes + drivers update&test;
- long-term VM changes (the kind of stuff you don't think to include in 2.4);
- ReiserFS integration: to cut l-k traffic by half B-)
- you know better that me what else...
Do you think the above can be done in, say, 6 months after 2.4.0?
>
> Linus
>
.TM.
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