Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2001 21:55:47 +0100 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: Release Policy [was: Linux 2.4.16 ] |
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:39:34PM -0800, junio@siamese.dhis.twinsun.com wrote: > >>>>> "MT" == Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> writes: > > MT> On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> Consistency is a Very Good Thing[TM] (says the one who tries to teach > >> scripts to understand the naming.) The advantage with the -rc naming is > >> that it avoids the -pre5, -pre6, -pre-final, -pre-final-really, > >> -pre-final-really-i-mean-it-this-time phenomenon when the release > >> candidate wasn't quite worthy, you just go -rc1, -rc2, -rc3. There is no > >> shame in needing more than one release candidate. > > MT> Agreed. I stick with the -rc naming convention for 2.4+... > > (This is a request to maintainers of three stable trees). > > While we are on the topic, could you also coordinate to keep the > EXTRAVERSION strings consistent? 2.4.X-preN uses "-preN" but > 2.2.X-preN uses "preN" without leading "-".
I'm using "-preN" with a leading "-", and will probably continue doing so.
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