Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:38:40 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Let's make a small change to the process |
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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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