Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261978AbUJYVda (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:33:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261297AbUJYV3m (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:29:42 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:61073 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261981AbUJYV2Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:28:25 -0400 Message-ID: <417D7089.3070208@tmr.com> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:30:49 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin CC: Linus Torvalds , William Lee Irwin III , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The naming wars continue... References: <4179F81A.4010601@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4179F81A.4010601@yahoo.com.au> 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: 1829 Lines: 40 Nick Piggin wrote: > 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! I do agree that the pre and rc names gave a strong hint that (-pre) new features would be considered or (-rc) it's worth doing more serious testing. If Linux doesn't like this any more, perhaps some other way to indicate the same thing would be desirable. I admit that the kernel has gotten so good that I only try -rc (by whatever name) kernel, I'm not waiting for the next big thing. I think that's really good, actually. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/