The Must-Fix List For 2.6.0

Posted by michael on Wednesday April 30, 2003 @07:23AM from the quart-of-milk,-loaf-of-bread dept.

Jeremy Andrews writes "Andrew Morton posted a lengthy list of items that need to be done before the 2.5 development kernel tree should be turned into the 2.6 stable kernel tree. He prefaced his list by noting that 2.6.0 does not mean, "it's finished, ship it", alternatively offering, "I'd propose that 2.6.0 means that users can migrate from 2.4.x with a good expectation that everything which they were using in 2.4 will continue to work, and that the kernel doesn't crash, doesn't munch their data and doesn't run like a dog. Other definitions are welcome.""

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The Linux Information Minister by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-30 09:27 · Score: 5, Funny

Things we should not track here are:
- Regular old bugs. Please use bugzilla.
- Wishlist items. This list is not a route for getting commitment for inclusion of $FAVEFEATURE. In fact it's probably a good way of getting the feature shot down ;)
- Driver problems. Most important drivers mostly work OK now. Please use bugzilla.

So, these are all the things that should be fixed in 2.6, except the things that are broke, the things you want, and the things that don't work.
Not only that, if you do ask, they definately won't fix it. Love that open source.