Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Release Policy [was: Linux 2.4.16 ] | Date | 26 Nov 2001 10:12:50 -0800 |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111261351160.13786-100000@freak.distro.conectiva> By author: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > No. Just the -pre-final is a -pre-final. :) > > -pre-final basically means that this is the "candidate" release for the > final. > > I could call it "candidate" or whatever (I don't really care about the > name). >
That's what a release candidate is. Expect the possibility that you might have more than one release candidate.
The -rc scheme proposed seems very clean indeed.
Oh, and yes, if you settle on a naming scheme, *please* let me know ahead of time so I can update the scripts to track it, rather than finding out by having hundreds of complaints in my mailbox...
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