Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266186AbUJWGYH (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 02:24:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267612AbUJWGUu (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 02:20:50 -0400 Received: from smtp205.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.129.95]:13231 "HELO smtp205.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267633AbUJWGUO (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 02:20:14 -0400 Message-ID: <4179F81A.4010601@yahoo.com.au> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 16:20:10 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820 Debian/1.7.2-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: William Lee Irwin III , Matt Mackall , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The naming wars continue... References: <20041022234631.GF28904@waste.org> <20041023011549.GK17038@holomorphy.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: 1327 Lines: 35 Linus Torvalds wrote: > More importantly, maybe we could all realize that it isn't actually that > big of an issue ;) > > Linus Linus I agree it isn't a huge issue. The main thing for me is that I could just give a _real_ release candidate more testing - run it through some regression tests, make sure it functions OK on all my computers, etc. I expect this would be helpful for people with large sets of regression tests, and maybe those maintaining 'other' architectures too. I understand there's always "one more" patch to go in, but now that we're doing this stable-development system, I think a week or two weeks or even three weeks to stabalize the release with only really-real-bugfixes can't be such a bad thing. 2.6.x-rc (rc for Ridiculous Count) can then be our development releases, and 2.6.x-rc (rc for Release Candidate) are then closer to stable releases (in terms of getting patches in). Optionally, you could change Ridiculous Count to PRErelease to avoid confusion :) Other than that I don't have much to complain about... so keep up the good work! Nick - 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/