Subject: Re: How is the development of new features for Linux Co-ordinated?
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Sun Oct 10 1999 - 13:03:57 MDT
Patrick,
Most of what you say here is fairly if not completely accurate.
Some developer folks have started to suggest some things we can do to
centralize what kernel tree we use, etc.
Right now, we could ship with Paul M's tree, the VGER tree, or the Linus
tree (if PPC even works in a given version).
The suggestion I've heard recently is to have another tree (eek!), but it
would be the "final tree" that people are to get their kernel from.
Paul M's tree is his personal on, VGER is basically were code needs to go
to get back to Linus.. and "final" would have all of the ati Rage 128
stuff, USB stuff, already applied.
I'm not sure if this is the solution, but at least we're starting to think
about it :)
Dan
> 1. It seems there's a lot of effort by individuals to get specific
> functionality working on specific hardware they have access to. From
> here it looks like a fragmented and chaotic group effort. Is it?
>
> 2. Is There is some form of communication going that eventually gets
> this material into
> the main kernel tree. I need to understand this process in more detail.
> How do I get into this?
>
> 3. I'm wondering if there any central registry of who is working on what
> for the Kernel and XFree or is it a general free for all personal
> network with certain folks in the know about certain issues that are of
> relevance to them.
>
> Would it help to have an easy means of registering
>
> -development activity by feature
> -specific machine configuration data
> -specific tests of kernel, driver or X functionality,
> -test results on known configurations
>
>
> I'm sure all of the above is happening but the methods are probably
> informal
>
>
> Apoligies to any who have seen my less focused attempt to formulate this question.
>
Dan
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