Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:29:48 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3 |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > I.e. i think it's a fact that right now our release version is highly > deceptive during the merge window. [...] > One option would be to make LOCALVERSION_AUTO compulsory. > > Or to add a tweak to the naming, something like: > > v2.6.31 > v2.6.31+ > v2.6.32-rc1 > v2.6.32-rc1+ [...] > ... for the sole purpose of warning people that anything they pull after > v2.6.31 got released is (wildly!) not vanilla v2.6.31 anymore.
If this scheme is meant to be something on which people can rely on, everybody who commits to a tree from which Linus pulls from would have to base their branches onto those ...+ commits, always. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--= =-=- --==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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