“Following the release announcement of the 2.6.21 Linux kernel,
Adrian Bunk noted that he no longer planned to track regressions.
He explained, ‘if we would take ‘no regressions’ seriously, it
might take 4 or 5 months between releases due to the lack of
developer manpower for handling regressions. But that should be
considered OK if avoiding regressions was considered more important
than getting as quick as possible to the next two week
regression-merge window…'”
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