Re: Development Model

2005-04-21 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:24:00PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > The current development model seems to go much smoother than > anything I've seen before. It violates conventional wisdom and that psychological thing is the lion share of why some people feel uneasy about it. Dealing with the paral

Re: Development Model

2005-04-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Chuck Wolber: > Has the Linux Kernel reached a point where the majority of developers feel > that (at least for now) no *MAJOR* "rip it out, stomp on it, burn it and > start over" parts of the kernel exist any longer? The IP stack is likely to see some development activity, at leat there are

Re: Development Model

2005-04-19 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > actually we have shown (and I like the model very much, it's a great way > to get many features production ready and in the hand of users/customers > really fast) that it doesn't take an odd number release branch to get > major changes in. Instead it

Re: Development Model

2005-04-19 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 22:31 -0700, Chuck Wolber wrote: > Greetings, > > For months I have been reading as much as I can about the current > stable/unstable development model, but still have a question. > > Has the Linux Kernel reached a point where the majority of developers feel > that (at lea

Re: Development Model

2005-04-19 Thread bert hubert
> that (at least for now) no *MAJOR* "rip it out, stomp on it, burn it and > start over" parts of the kernel exist any longer? In other words, do you These ideas continue to exist. This is partly due to increasing skills of developers but also to the changing environment. You'll find literally s