Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 28 Jul 1996 22:44:13 -0400 (EDT) | From | Brian M Grunkemeyer <> | Subject | Re: This is really Ridiculous |
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Excerpts from internet.computing.linux-kernel: 27-Jul-96 Re: This is really Ridiculous by Michael E. Chastain@dura > I think that some of the changes introduced since 2.0 were too big for a > 2.0 release. > > I also think that the version numbering scheme is inadequate. When > there are bug fixes applied to 2.0.N, the new version doesn't deserve to > be 2.0.N+1 right away. It should be 2.0.N+1.beta for a few days first.
The current versioning scheme seems adequate to me, but I think 2.0 was released prematurely. More thorough testing was needed in the end of the 1.3 series, er, excuse me, the 1.99/pre2.0 series.
Is there some automated way to make sure all different possible configurations (or at least a frequently-used subset of those) will compile? If Linus would only test the code to make sure it compiles in different configurations, that would catch many of the stupid little "bugs" we always see.
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