Re: Shortening the Development Cycle...

Robert Dinse (nanook@eskimo.com)
Thu, 9 Sep 1999 03:52:08 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Chris Smith wrote:

> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 05:49:35 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Chris Smith <cd_smith@ou.edu>
> To: Robert Dinse <nanook@eskimo.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Shortening the Development Cycle...
>
> On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Robert Dinse wrote:
> > It would limit participation in development to those that can afford the
> > latest and greatest hardware, significantly reducing the pool of coders, and
> > as a result increase the length of the development cycle.
>
> That doesn't make a lot of sense... what "M. Carling" asked was that
> support for new hardware not be included in stable kernel sets... that
> doesn't implu removinf old hardware support from development kernel sets.
> If I'm missing something, let me know what it is.
>
> I'm not sure that limiting stable kernels that much is a good idea, but
> this is definitely not the right argument against it.
>
> Chris

I apologize, I must have been half asleep while reading this.

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