First of all, I know this is actually a developer discussion and it's not my business to interfere so sorry if I'm crossing any boundaries.
I've been following this discussion and whether tpowa wants to maintain the kernel package is a totally different issue. I think I speak on behalf of all the ArchLinux user community when I say that the ArchLinux kernel is rock solid as it is now. It's a LOT more stable than the kernels maintained by other distributions when the fact is that those other distributions usually have a lot of people working on that single kernel package. Tpowa is a already doing a great job and so are the rest of the ArchLinux developers. The main reason I still use ArchLinux is that I can rely on the kernel booting everytime. Back in 2006, I had to try some more popular distributions because I was helping people install them on their desktops and laptops in an attempt to spread Linux in an fully MS Windows environment and a lot of those distribution's kernels were too buggy. One distro's kernel was a mix between 2.6.15 , 2.6.16/17 and they labeled it a stable long term release when it hardly booted on 5 of my friends' laptops. And guess what? ArchLinux always booted fine on every single machine thanks to tpowa's efforts. Also if you look at the patches in the kernel26 package, it's only bug fixes, driver fixes or support for some filesystems or devices. There's also the logo_linux_clut**.ppm; there's really no new features there because we're also not adding bootsplash/gensplash or tuxonice feature patches. Even if we backport a fix for a driver that's not going to be in upstream before at least 2.6.24, this is still not adding new features. It only means that 2.6.23 and lower should have been tested better upstream. There is a difference between bug fixing and adding new features. I was taught in university that in any field of engineering, the most important thing is common sense and the ability to sustain a constant quality of your work and I think tpowa has shown the ability to do this. Regards, Hussam.
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