Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261777AbTKMHbM (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:31:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262115AbTKMHbM (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:31:12 -0500 Received: from as13-5-5.has.s.bonet.se ([217.215.179.23]:6296 "EHLO K-7.stesmi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261777AbTKMHbK (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:31:10 -0500 Message-ID: <3FB333B2.2090006@stesmi.com> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:33:06 +0100 From: Stefan Smietanowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Krzysztof Halasa CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Some thoughts about stable kernel development References: <3FAE9026.60500@stesmi.com> <3FB25A28.1070800@stesmi.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1304 Lines: 33 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Stefan Smietanowski writes: > > >>The amount of mail coming to the list with FAQ like that shows that >>no, people aren't. Many are, some aren't. Some of those end up asking >>things that have been asked a thousand times. > > > I've never considered asking a question, even a FAQ, bad. If many people > ask the same question - what does it mean? For me, it just means the > question is an important one and that the problem is not yet solved. Asking a question is not bad, but if we can avoid making a situation that will generate questions I would say that's a worthwhile goal. x.y.z - if y is odd it's development, if y is even it's stable. Easy. z+1 is always newer than z and hence z+1 should contain a bugfix that z might not. Also pretty simple. x.y.z+1 pre/rc q does not contain something that x.y.z pre/rc r has is NOT easy. We both know that me and you will have no problem whatsoever with this scheme. So it's not about me and you. I just think it will confuse some people that's all. // Stefan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/