Re: Accountability
david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
14 Sep 1999 13:11:28 -0700
In article <linux.kernel.19990914162252Z156154-15264+596@vger.rutgers.edu>,
Colin McCormack <colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
>> Colin McCormack wrote:
>>>Is there a good reason, or indeed any reason, why epckpt isn't in the kernel
>>> right now?
>>
>> "Feature freeze".
>
>Since version 2.2.1 ?
>
>> Wait until 2.5 unless your feature will really change the life of
>> millions.
>
>The patch, a relatively simple one, has been around since 2.0.36. That's a
>year at least. 2.4 is scheduled for release at the end of this year, it may
>slip.
>
>Is two years lead time really what you'd expect from a Bazaar development
>system?
It's not a bazaar. The distributions may be developed that way,
but to get into the mainline kernel you have to go through the
pope.
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david parsons \bi/ Can't get much more cathedral-like than the Linux
\/ kernel.
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