The meaning of STABLE (was: X server 1.9 release thoughts)

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 09:17:55PM +0200, olafBuddenhagen at gmx.net wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 02:43:01PM -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> > On Apr 6, 2010, at 11:47, Daniel Stone wrote:
> >> Er, is there no reason hardware enable (even if it's not entirely
> >> fully-featured) can't be done in point releases?
> >
> > Yeah, I thought the 6-week point release schedule was mainly to
> > address this very concern amongst the drivers developers.
> 
> I firmly believe that point releases should *never* add any new
> functionality. Ever.
> 
> The whole idea of a stable branch is, well, that it's supposed to be
> stable... Upgrading to a newer point release should *fix* bugs, not add
> stuff that is likely to introduce new ones. Avoiding regressions is the
> top priority here.

Sure, but adding support for new hardware very rarely regresses old
hardware.  The only difference is that people with new hardware go from
definitely not working to probably working.

Cheers,
Daniel
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