> It's often a week or two before a test versions is reported on, so
> many times there is no way to serialize the changes.
>
> Think how much faster, and more voluminous, reporting you would
> receive if your changes went into the main trees on a timely basis?
Yes, I would thousands of emails instead of just hundreds a day.
And most of them would be repeats or just mistaken: every protocol layer bug
or change would be confused with a driver problem, and vice-versa.
Look at the absurd size of the uncompressed 2.3.* kernel patches for how
unreasonable this monolithic development system has become.
Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, and
USRA-CESDIS, becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
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