On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 06:22:13PM +0100, Eike Sauer wrote: > Hello! Hi Eike,
> The discussion doesn't seem to be very productive any more. > Time to come to a compromise? Sounds nice. > What about letting Robert build and upload (if ftp-masters agree) > his package, *if* he puts it in experimental, uses a description > that contains a warning about the experimental status of the > package in a prominent place, and not calling it "linux", but... > (Robert, please choose. linux-tng, linux-experimental and other > names have been proposed). If all works out fine and such packages > eventually become the standard way of installing the linux kernel, > the name could be changed then (as well as distrubution and description). > If it's not working, an important package name stays usable. I agree with all the above, as long as there's consensus to do that. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
