Re: how much stuff is no longer "EXPERIMENTAL"?

From: Bernd Petrovitsch
Date: Fri Jul 25 2008 - 06:42:50 EST


On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 01:15 -0400, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >> legitimately experimental content in the source tree. surely *some*
> >> of that is suitably mature such that that dependency can be dropped.
> >
> > What is the connection between age of code and experimental status ?
>
> Is it reasonable for in-tree code to remain "experimental" indefinately?

Or until death. E.g. "devfs" went directly from "experimental" to
"obsolete".

Bernd
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