Messages in this thread |  | | From | junio@siamese ... | Subject | Re: Release Policy [was: Linux 2.4.16 ] | Date | 26 Nov 2001 12:39:34 -0800 |
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>>>>> "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 "-". - 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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