Andrew pointed out that, during the 2.6 process, he and Linus have been merging patches at a rate of about 10MB/month. There is, he says, no reason to believe that things will not continue that way. The traditional stabilization mechanism, where almost no patches are accepted for long periods of time, does not strike him as a good idea. Instead, Andrew would like to see a 2.6 tree which continues to change and evolve, and let the distributors do the final stabilization work. In his vision of the future, the kernel.org kernel will be the most featureful and fastest kernel out there, but it will not necessarily be the most stable.
[^] # Re: Quelques corrections assez importantes
Posté par 007 . En réponse à la dépêche Sortie du noyau Linux 2.6.9. Évalué à 5.
Le Linux vanilla n'est plus un noyau pour la production. Ou uniquement pour les personnes abonnées à la lkml et qui comprennent ce qui s'y dit.
C'est lié au nouveau modèle de développement défini durant le dernier sommet noyau :
http://lwn.net/Articles/94386/(...)
Andrew pointed out that, during the 2.6 process, he and Linus have been merging patches at a rate of about 10MB/month. There is, he says, no reason to believe that things will not continue that way. The traditional stabilization mechanism, where almost no patches are accepted for long periods of time, does not strike him as a good idea. Instead, Andrew would like to see a 2.6 tree which continues to change and evolve, and let the distributors do the final stabilization work. In his vision of the future, the kernel.org kernel will be the most featureful and fastest kernel out there, but it will not necessarily be the most stable.
Un autre article qui parle de la même chose :
http://lwn.net/Articles/95312/(...)
À lire attentivement avant de protester.