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SubjectRe: Development tree, PLEASE?
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On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 12:10 -0700, Michael Loftis wrote:
> --On January 20, 2006 2:03:52 PM -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > But you're perfectly happy to make the kernel developers do the
> > equivalent thing when they have to maintain 2 forks (a stable and devel).
> > Go back and look at the status of the 2.5 tree - there were *large*
> > chunks of time when 2.4 or 2.5 would get an important bugfix, but the
> > other tree wouldn't get it for *weeks* because of the hassle of
> > cross-porting the patch.
>
> Weeks is better than never, and still better than commercial vendors. ;)

Especially if someone else is doing the work (- to get back to the
point).

Bernd
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