Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 03 Mar 2005 04:31:33 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote: > >>We have all these problems precisely because _nobody_ is saying "I'm >> only going to accept bug fixes". We _need_ some amount of release >> engineering. Right now we basically have none. > > > Sorry Jeff, but that's crap. Go look at the commits list. Every single > patch which has gone into the tree for the past two weeks is a bugfix, I > think.
It's an an exaggeration, but what do users that don't follow daily kernel development see?
"oh, somewhere between -rc1 and -rc5 they got serious about taking only bugfixes. Andrew Morton says it was the past few weeks... what -rc is that?"
Jeff
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