Re: Development tree, PLEASE?

[Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>]

--On January 20, 2006 4:40:50 PM -0500 Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> 
wrote:

> Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com> writes:
>
> > I think the four digit bugfix only stuff is an excellent step, and
> > necessary.  But the thing that I need more is stable APIs (both
> > userland and kernel, and at the kernel<->userland interface) *with*
> > bugfixes and (hopefully with) trivial hardware support update
> > backports, like the replacement e1000 driver.  And I guess I shouldn't
> > say 'I' need, but colleagues need.  And it's not just one company or
> > one project or one client/customer.  And not all the issues are the
> > same, but they come back to needing somewhere that's kept 'dusted off'
> > but not rearranged (too?) regularly.
>
> The point is that this is hard work, and not very interesting.
> Commercial distro vendors pay people to do it.  If you want a similar
> community effort, but you're not prepared to invest time, money, or
> leadership, well, too bad.

It sounds like that's what it's coming down to.  I'm willing to I just as 
anyone, need to be careful not to bite off too much.  And right now this 
sounds like it might be.

> And your desire for such a project to be "blessed" makes no sense.
> Create your fork, maintain it, and see who else wants to use it.  If
> it gets enough users and stays useful, I'm sure that it can be hosted
> on kernel.org -- that's really the only kind of "blessing" that there
> is.
>
> Remember that the people who maintained 2.2 and 2.4 as "stable"
> kernels volunteered to do it and put a *lot* of time into it.  It
> didn't just magically happen.

I know, and I'm incredibly grateful for that.  Heck up until just a year 
ago there was a 2.2.x box in the corner at home.  Heroic effort on those 
persons parts.

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