<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: JetBrainsMono-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">But app developers (like those developing QtMoko) did expect 100% which we</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: JetBrainsMono-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: JetBrainsMono-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">even have not achieved many years after the active development of QtMoko ended.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: JetBrainsMono-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Not just app developers, also middleware. In fact, the whole userland is depending on a 100%</div><div>functioning kernel – otherwise it’s just no fun anymore.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>When I was younger, I could understand the „fixation“ on getting things into mainline – now, </div><div>with more years on my back, I believe things would have turned out differently if we were</div><div>to follow the path of most commercial developers – which is, freezing the kernel at one point</div><div>of time to allow the rest of the folks to move forward without a moving target.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Later on, perhaps, submit stuff upstream, jump to another mainline kernel (if necessary), rinse</div><div>and repeat.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>:M:</div><div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>