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--On January 20, 2006 4:40:50 PM -0500 Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
wrote:

> Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com> writes:
>
>> I think the four digit bugfix only stuff is an excellent step, and
>> necessary. But the thing that I need more is stable APIs (both
>> userland and kernel, and at the kernel<->userland interface) *with*
>> bugfixes and (hopefully with) trivial hardware support update
>> backports, like the replacement e1000 driver. And I guess I shouldn't
>> say 'I' need, but colleagues need. And it's not just one company or
>> one project or one client/customer. And not all the issues are the
>> same, but they come back to needing somewhere that's kept 'dusted off'
>> but not rearranged (too?) regularly.
>
> The point is that this is hard work, and not very interesting.
> Commercial distro vendors pay people to do it. If you want a similar
> community effort, but you're not prepared to invest time, money, or
> leadership, well, too bad.

It sounds like that's what it's coming down to. I'm willing to I just as
anyone, need to be careful not to bite off too much. And right now this
sounds like it might be.

> And your desire for such a project to be "blessed" makes no sense.
> Create your fork, maintain it, and see who else wants to use it. If
> it gets enough users and stays useful, I'm sure that it can be hosted
> on kernel.org -- that's really the only kind of "blessing" that there
> is.
>
> Remember that the people who maintained 2.2 and 2.4 as "stable"
> kernels volunteered to do it and put a *lot* of time into it. It
> didn't just magically happen.

I know, and I'm incredibly grateful for that. Heck up until just a year
ago there was a 2.2.x box in the corner at home. Heroic effort on those
persons parts.

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