From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:36:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D89800.8080701@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708311720140.29153@localhost.localdomain>
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
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-31 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-31 21:38 Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-31 22:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-01 6:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-01 9:06 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-31 22:36 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2007-09-01 1:23 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 9:14 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-01 9:21 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 9:47 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-01 9:54 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 13:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-01 13:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-01 10:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-01 10:52 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 11:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-01 13:44 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-09-01 13:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-01 14:27 ` Stefan Richter
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709010435070.26137@localhost.localdomain>
2007-09-01 9:27 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-01 9:41 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 17:22 ` Dave Jones
2007-09-01 17:58 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 18:06 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 18:24 ` Dave Jones
2007-08-31 23:02 ` Dave Jones
2007-09-01 8:34 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-31 23:29 Mitchell Erblich
2007-09-01 1:33 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 6:39 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-01 7:02 ` Robert P. J. Day
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