Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:58:26 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering |
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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:46:22 -0500 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> If Linus/DaveM really don't like -pre/-rc naming, I think 2.6.x.y is > preferable to even/odd.
All of these arguments are circular. If people think that even/odd will devalue odd releases, guess what 2.6.x.y will do? By that line of reasoning nobody will test 2.6.x just the same as they aren't testing 2.6.x-rc* right now.
I think they will test the odd releases, because as a real release they will get slashdot/lwn.net/etc. announcements.
That's one of the major things the -rc's don't get. Maybe it gets a reference in lwn.net's weekly kernel article, but mostly kernel geeks read those and that's not who we want testing -rc's (such geeks already are doing so).
It has to be a "real" release. That does have an impact. However, I am ambivalent about how to make them real. Even/odd, 2.6.x.y, either is fine with me. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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