Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 07:44:09 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Subject: Re: The naming wars continue...
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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 at 18:15:49 -0700 William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I'm sure you have a well-founded logically consistent self-consistent
>> method of defining what release candidates are; unfortunately hordes of
>> others do, too, and their notions are in turn all subtly inconsistent
>> with yours and each other's, and they're all relatively vocal about them.

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 09:17:52AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>   Others are arguing about _subtle_ differences; what Linus did was huge
> by comparison.  It's as if they were discussing what shade of red to call
> something and Linus came along and declared it green!
>   "Release candidate" means candidate for release.  Simple and easy to
> understand, no?  Does Linus plan on possibly releaseing -rc1 as 2.6.10
> tomorrow?  I don't think so...
>   I plan to start testing 2.6.10 upon its final release.

Logical consistency can be quantified no further than consistency or
inconsistency. There is no useful notion of degree of such.


-- wli
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