Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:09:07 -0700 | From | Michael Loftis <> | Subject | Re: Development tree, PLEASE? |
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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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