Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

>
> On Aug 31 2007 18:02, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >>   it may be that some people had a different understanding of what was
> >> meant by "maturity" than i did.  what *i* meant by that attribute is
> >> a feature's current position in the normal software life cycle, and
> >> that would be one of:
> >>
> >>   experimental -> normal (stable) -> deprecated -> obsolete
> >
> > People who actually write and maintain code disagree with your imaginative
> > interpretation.
>
> Might I point to the "designers and builders" thread...
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/30/279 :)

i'm trying to figure out whether i fall into the "insane" or the
"hmmm, interesting, we'll get back to you" camp.  :-)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZF3r5lAvhYI

rday
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