Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269291AbUJWDN7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:13:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269297AbUJWDNr (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:13:47 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:54662 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269291AbUJWDMM (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:12:12 -0400 Message-ID: <4179CB07.8000405@osdl.org> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:07:51 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Espen_Fjellv=E6r_Olsen?= CC: Clemens Schwaighofer , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The naming wars continue... References: <41798F74.9090200@tequila.co.jp> <7aaed09104102216131170194b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7aaed09104102216131170194b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1269 Lines: 35 Espen Fjellv?r Olsen wrote: > 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. Well, several of us think that -pre's should come before the -rc's and not after them. It appears that we should concentrate on the NAME=Zonked Quokka part of Makefile for our sanity. -- ~Randy - 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/