From owner-linux-arm-announce@lists.arm.linux.org.uk  Sat Sep 11 08:55:03 1999
Received: (from majordomo@localhost)
	by zen.ics.uwe.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.8.7) id IAA27695
	for linux-arm-announce-outgoing; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 08:55:03 +0100
Received: from caramon.armlinux.org.uk (root@m41-nsv3-trogon.tch.cableol.net [194.168.16.191])
	by zen.ics.uwe.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA27610
	for <linux-arm-announce@lists.arm.linux.org.uk>; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 08:54:48 +0100
From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk
Received: from raistlin.armlinux.org.uk (linux@raistlin [192.168.0.3])
	by caramon.armlinux.org.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA30468;
	Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:21:30 +0100
Received: (from linux@localhost) by raistlin.armlinux.org.uk (8.7.4/8.7.3) id AAA09173; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:19:26 +0100
Message-Id: <199909102319.AAA09173@raistlin.armlinux.org.uk>
Subject: Linus announces feature freeze
To: linux-arm-announce@lists.arm.linux.org.uk
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:19:25 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-arm@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-linux-arm-announce@lists.arm.linux.org.uk
Precedence: bulk

Too all kernel developers,

Please note that Linus has now announced his feature freeze for Linux 2.4
(due to be released for Christmas).  This is an extract from Linus' mail:

> Note that feature freeze is different from code freeze. We'll still do
> updates of drivers etc without being too anal about it, and even
> completely new drivers (or possibly filesystems) etc may possibly be
> accepted as long as they don't impact _anything_ else and don't imply a
> completely new approach to something. Drivers in particular tend to be
> updated even in the stable kernel, after all.
> 
> But expect me to be less than enthusiastic about even new drivers. New
> ideas for core functionality are right out.
> 
> The feature freeze should be turning into a code freeze in another two
> months or so, and a release by the end of the year. And as everybody
> knows, our targets never slip.

I intend to follow the feature freeze, which I will put into effect
from next weekend (18th).  If you have outstanding code which is
reasonably clean and is tested, then send it to the patch system
by the 15th.  Anything major after that date will be left out in
the cold.  You have been warned.

I intend also to offer the NetWinder people (Rebel.Com especially)
the opportunity of having a feature freeze this time, unlike the
plainly stupid situation that happened half way through the 2.2
kernels.

Traditionally, it has been difficult to get ARM developers to obide
by feature and code freezes.  Let's make this our first real across
the board feature freeze.
   _____
  |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+-
  |   |        Russell King       linux@arm.linux.org.uk      --- ---
  | | | |  http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/armlinux.html    /  /  |
  | +-+-+                                                     --- -+-
  /   |               THE developer of ARM Linux              |+| /|\
 /  | | |                                                     ---  |
    +-+-+ -------------------------------------------------  /\\\  |

unsubscribe: body of `unsubscribe linux-arm-announce' to majordomo@lists.arm.linux.org.uk