On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 13:18 -0400, Bryan J Smith wrote: > Or would everyone agree it's probably not a good idea to try to work > something for RHEL 5?
First off, er um, this came out wrong. ;) What I mean to say is "would everyone agree anything I do for RHEL 5 is probably not going to be useful for anything else?" I'm stuck with RHEL 5 for my client, end of story there, until RHEL 6. ;) On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 13:39 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > It's very much not the right idea to start doing the work on RHEL5. Sorry, re-read the previous (now corrected). My apologies for my prior wording. On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 13:39 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > If there's functionality that people want, you want to start working on it > against the upstream development tree. Not against a two year old > branch. Then, once you get something which is working acceptably > upstream and meets the requirements, it's reasonable to assess the > feasibility of a backport. I wish I could start that way. On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 13:39 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > Doing it ANY OTHER WAY all but assures the fact that you'll end up > having to do the work all over again against a new version. And thus > the cycle ends up repeating itself endlessly. > For an analogy -- if you were to start working on an entirely new > kernel subsystem, would you do it against 2.6.18 or would you do it > against Linus's git? I agree with you completely on this. Unfortunately, I don't have the time and focus. When I'm past this, I will certainly rebase for upstream -- especially for (and likely very prior) to RHEL 6. -- Bryan J Smith - Senior Consultant - Red Hat GPS SE US mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (407) 489-7013 (Mobile) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (non-RH/ext to Blackberry) ----------------------------------------------------- For every dollar you spend on Red Hat solutions, you not only fund the leading community development re- source, but you receive the #1 IT industry leader in corporate value. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
