On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Mark Studebaker wrote: > We have a vote from Ky?sti for branching. > Albert suggested the same thing to me in an email. > Pavel suggested abandoning CVS and doing everything in Linus' tree. > > I'm really reluctant to branch but it may be the only realistic way to do it > unless somebody volunteers to do patches manually (and perpetually). There was still a choice of what to branch. Choosing wisely, we can limit commits between branches to one direction. I suggest we have main branch for 2.5 development, - Some day 2.5 results become main anyway. - Patches to 2.4 are not likely to touch kernel interfaces -> merging 2.4->2.5 painless - Patches to 2.5 are likely to touch kernel interfaces only -> little to none merges 2.5->2.4 I see no reason to release 2.8.0 immediately. Just tag CVS before we branch, then do 2.4<->2.5 cleanup and de release once there is something new to offer. -- Ky?sti M?lkki kmalkki at cc.hut.fi
