: Linus has already announced the first stage of freezing stuff.
Opla.. I missed this moment... I'm playing quake2 and cannot stop it :-)
Alan, how much time I have? There are several important things to do
before releasing 2.2. I even do not say about QoS, there are the things
crying about solution:
* Transparent proxy. It is broken both at socket level (after new socket
hashing) and in routing part (by me). Seems, it is the only thing, which
really deserves to be blamed by 2.0 users.
* IPv6. Well, though this stuff is still experimental, it would be shame
to freeze it in its current state. To be honest, it is one big bug now,
and if it would go to a stable kernel it is unlikely to make good reputation
to linux. Fixing is not easy and will require some intellectual exerts.
Well, I can make it, but I need know how much time we have to schedule
this work and to decide what we will manage to make cleanly and what
is deemed to be plugged with temporary patches.
* Routing API needs garbage collection. It is not a big problem,
because all the applications using it are under my control at the moment,
but I need a time to be sure that something looking as garbage was not
really an organ important for life :-)
Alexey Kuznetsov