Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:43:23 +0100 | From | Sven Vermeulen <> | Subject | Re: Release Policy [was: Linux 2.4.16 ] |
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:18:02PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Why not just disguard this sillyness of alphabetic characters in version > numbers... Just carry through the same structure used by major/minor: > I.e. > > 2.0.39 < released 2.0.39 > 2.0.39.1.1 < first development snapshot of the kernel which will eventually > be 2.0.40 > 2.0.39.1.2 < second > 2.0.39.1.n < Nth > 2.0.39.2.1 < first RC > 2.0.39.2.2 < second RC > 2.0.39.3.1 < opps! Development went too long and we had to break feature > freeze to add important features. > 2.0.39.4.1 < Trying to stablize again > 2.0.39.4.2 < a few more bugs fixxed > 2.0.40 < Looks like 2.0.39.4.2 got it right!
Some people may find this more "logical", but imho most will find it confusing... It's already difficult to inform someone about the (number).(even|odd).(release)-(patch|pre-final) scheme. I'm more into -pre: added some features, bugfixes etc... -fc : feature-freeze, only bugfixes and having some time (f.i. 48h) between the last -fc and the "real" release (without having a single addendum to the ChangeLog).
Just my 2 cents, Sven Vermeulen
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