On Wed, 2 May 2007, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
> stefan richter wrote:
> > We have to try to avoid this waste of resources when we put
> > features into feature-removal-schedule.txt. That's what I meant
> > with "the hard part" in the other post.
> >
> > BTW, of course it doesn't suffice to say "we can't remove it yet"
> > after the due day. There need to be well-founded reasons for
> > another deferral. Of course if there are such reasons, it means
> > something went wrong when the feature was put into removal
> > schedule. (Some facts weren't known.)
>
> So when this sort of thing comes up, why can't somebody put together
> a trivial patch to update feature-removal-schedule.txt? If a
> deadline is reached, and a removal is attempted and aborted, the
> deadline should be extended, obviously. So then the patches can be
> resubmitted (or recreated, even) when the new deadline is reached,
> da capo.
argh. the whole point of this discussion is to come to a *consensus*
on what should be in that feature removal file. there is no point in
creating and submitting patches, either to update that file or remove
kernel features, until enough people *agree*.
at the risk of being head-bangingly repetitive, that's what the wiki
page is for:
http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Stuff_to_be_removed
go. read. comment. update. add. remove. it's a wiki. don't make
me pull this car over and explain it. :-)
rday
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