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SubjectRe: Let's make a small change to the process
Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mer, 2004-10-27 at 03:17, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>
>>>If the goal of -ac is to only include those fixes, why can't we rename
>>>it in something more "intuitive" for the final users ?
>>>Do you see what I mean ?
>>
>> AFAICT -ac is not supposed to be a complete collection of bugfixes.
>> 2.6.9-ac3 was certainly missing a lot of them (haven't seen -ac4 yet.)
>
>
> The goal of -ac is to contain the stuff I personally consider important.
> A lot of the smaller bugfixes individually are fine but a 'complete set
> of bugfixes' turns into a large change set and then needs an entire
> validation and release cycle of its own.
>
> Each 2.6.10rc change I merged is on the basis of reward >> risk.

Not to give you a swelled head, but at the moment -ac looks more stable
than anything else widely available.

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