Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"

[Chuck Ebbert]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 at 08:03:13 -0700 William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> I'm running 2.6 on a number of machines I rely upon
> heavily as servers etc. on the open net as well as the usual dedicated
> kernel hacking machines. The uptimes of the relied-upon systems are
> measured in months, at times approaching a year.

 "It works for me" doesn't cut it in the OS world.


> More bugs are fixed than are introduced every release by a large margin.

 Irrelevant.


> And not even your beloved 2.4 is immune to regressions.

 We're not talking about regression, i.e. reappearance of old bugs.


> What does the number of patchsets have to do with anything?

 Large changes produce bugs -- that's a fact of life.

 It's not that the changes aren't needed, it's just the the previous 2.6 release
is kind of like a baby abandoned on a doorstep -- nobody has the time to fix
those last few bugs.  Even if someone were to step up to the plate and try to
create a stable 2.6 series, I'd bet the lead developers wouldn't even spend time
working on it.


--Chuck Ebbert  26-Oct-04  12:31:08
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