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Message-ID: <46D89800.8080701@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:36:48 +0200 From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com> CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my! Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... > attributes would have two critical and non-negotiable properties: > > 1) they would be entirely orthogonal to one another, and > 2) they can be assigned at most one of a pre-defined set of values If they are fully orthogonal to another, then they are also nonexclusive. You want them to be mutual exclusive, not orthogonal. ... > experimental -> normal (stable) -> deprecated -> obsolete > > it's a natural progression and, at any point, a feature cannot > possibly have more than one maturity value. it would be as absurd as > saying that someone was a teenager *and* was a twenty-something at the > same time. Keep in mind though that 'experimental', in the context of Linux kernel features, has nothing to do with the age of a feature. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== =--= ----= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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