Re: v2.6 vs v3.0

jbradford@dial.pipex.com
Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:39:59 +0100 (BST)


> > How many people are sitting on the sidelines waiting for guarantee that ide is
> > not going to blow up on our filesystems and take our data with it. Guarantee
> > that ide is working and not dangerous to our data, then I bet a lot more
> > people will come back and bang on 2.5.
>
> How the hell can I _guarantee_ anything like that?

You don't need to - just post "2.5.x ide is working, and not dangerous to your data", and loads of people will start using it. That way, we get it tested a decent amount.

Of course when somebody's root fs get fsck'ed, (pun intended), the list is bound to get a flamewar^Whelpfully worded bug report.

The false rumors that IDE was fubar for a long time in 2.5.x, coupled with the fact that a lot of recent 2.5.x kernels don't compile, seem to have scared off people which is rediculous.

John.
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