The meaning of STABLE (was: X server 1.9 release thoughts)

[olafBuddenhagen at gmx.net]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 04:58:49PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 09:17:55PM +0200, olafBuddenhagen at gmx.net wrote:

> > The whole idea of a stable branch is, well, that it's supposed to be
> > stable... Upgrading to a newer point release should *fix* bugs, not add
> > stuff that is likely to introduce new ones. Avoiding regressions is the
> > top priority here.
> 
> Sure, but adding support for new hardware very rarely regresses old
> hardware.  The only difference is that people with new hardware go from
> definitely not working to probably working.

Unless that hardware worked fine before with VESA or some other fallback
driver; and unless The Unexpected happens, and the changes for
supporting new hardware do break other parts of the driver after all...

-antrik-