Re: PROPOSAL: New NEW development model

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:06:42PM -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
> In lieu of the recent unpleasantness[1] about the new development model,
> and of some unexpected nastiness[2] as well, I propose that a very
> slight modification be made to the current development model.  This
> would merge the previous and new development models (as far as my
> understanding is on them) and create a solution for all.
> [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/22/497
> [2] http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/26/155
> Previously, there were "Stable" and "Development" branches.  The
> "Stable" branches, such as 2.2 and 2.4, would stagnate, and rarely have
> backported features.  The "Development" branches such as 2.3 and 2.5
> would be hammered and mixed with patches, then cleaned up until they
> were fairly stable.  Then they'd be hammered with more patches, then
> cleaned up, then frozen, cleaned up until "stable" and then released.

This is not useful to distinguish your "suggestion" from the status quo.


-- wli
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