Re: Slow development cycle

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sun May 28 2000 - 11:50:36 EST


On Sun, 28 May 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> "Kenneth C. Arnold" wrote:
> >
> > My issue is with the length of time between stable kernel releases.

> > My proposal is to shorten the open development time a lot.

> If you are unhappy with the pace of development, there are ways
> to accelerate it. Posting RFCs is not one of those ways...

Amen.

I'm looking forward to Kenneth's kernel patches that
will stabilise and speed up 2.4 within the next two
weeks.

OTOH, maybe we *did* include too much new features in
the 2.3 cycle. We may want to try doing a bit less next
time.

regards,

Rik

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