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    SubjectRe: RFD: Kernel release numbering
    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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