Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269093AbUJWDAS (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:00:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268265AbUJVXSe (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:18:34 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.194]:57878 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269142AbUJVXNo convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:13:44 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=hhA6RgKdh6nOwgxTB7xjACdTFj6dYds3ityps8Mq8Kw8r80c7Cp7KL5ASWE4Ba+xIxsH72CSN/d5gPwNNRQFRVrkXL2zTIO+qoTgJP8hOMOQ2BKZI9LmJj+Dg0QKiUBj8B51L9RgGRzMrZXD9FlaU1K7v9GgHezD0ucAzDZEeHE= Message-ID: <7aaed09104102216131170194b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 01:13:34 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Espen_Fjellv=E6r_Olsen?= Reply-To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Espen_Fjellv=E6r_Olsen?= To: Clemens Schwaighofer Subject: Re: The naming wars continue... Cc: Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <41798F74.9090200@tequila.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT References: <41798F74.9090200@tequila.co.jp> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1092 Lines: 28 On 10/23/2004 07:05 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, > Linux-2.6.10-rc1 is out there for your pleasure. > > I thought long and hard about the name of this release (*), since one of > the main complaints about 2.6.9 was the apparently release naming scheme. > > Should it be "-rc1"? Or "-pre1" to show it's not really considered release > quality yet? Or should I make like a rocket scientist, and count _down_ > instead of up? Should I make names based on which day of the week the > release happened? Questions, questions.. Do the -rcs first, let them contain everything that should go into the next release. And when you feel that you have released enough -rcs(Uh, whenever that is...) release the -pres. They should only contain critical bugfixes before the final release. -- Mvh / Best regards Espen Fjellv?r Olsen espenfjo@gmail.com Norway - 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/