On Sep 26, 2008, at Sep 26, 2008, 3:57 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 15:54 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
The whole system makes it absolutely impossible to plan features and
bug fixes.
The only thing it makes impossible is planning features for a
_particular_ kernel revision.
I find it impossible to plan for a particular _year_ (or even two).
The problem is _you_, the subsystem maintainer, have a merge window
too. I find it challenging to align my patch submissions with two
sliding merge windows that open and close at arbitrary times without
any warning whatever. And now I have to worry about Bruce's merge
window as well....
Plus, the submission guidelines keep changing. FreeBSD has an amazing
guide to kernel development rules and conventions posted on the web.
I wish Linux had the same.
If I know in advance when you (and Bruce) are taking new features or
bug fixes for each kernel release, that would be helpful.
--
Chuck Lever
chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com
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