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Matt Mackall wrote: >On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:21:38PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > >>This is an idea that has been brewing for some time: Andrew has mentioned >>it a couple of times, I've talked to some people about it, and today Davem >>sent a suggestion along similar lines to me for 2.6.12. >> >>Namely that we could adopt the even/odd numbering scheme that we used to >>do on a minor number basis, and instead of dropping it entirely like we >>did, we could have just moved it to the release number, as an indication >>of what was the intent of the release. >> >> > >One last plea for the 2.4 scheme: > > a) all the crazy stuff goes in 2.6.x-preN, which ends up being > equivalent to 2.6.<odd> and friends in your scheme > b) bugfixes only in 2.6.x-rcN, which ends up being equivalent to > 2.6.<even>-* in your scheme. > c) 2.6.x is always 2.6.x-rc<last> with just a version number change[1] > >This has some nice features: > > - alternates as rapidly as you want between stable and development > - no brown paper bag bugs sneaking in between -rc<last> and 2.6.x > - 2.6.* is suitable for all users, 2.6.*-rc* is suitable for almost > all users > - it's already in use for 2.4 and people are happy with it > > > I understand that :) (and if 2.6.y+1-preX appeared before 2.6.y then that wouldn't be too confusing) (neither would 2.6.y.1 as an 'oops' in the human sense) --Joe User. Who's scared to risk his personally valuable data on a 2.6.x-pre<anything> - but will install, lets see, hmm, -rc2 or above :) (I suppose the more paranoid I get, the higher the watermark I set on -rcX) (I'm lying since I'm running a -mm on my server but that's only because I helped track down an XFS/nfsd bug!) - 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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