Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262143AbUJZGI4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:08:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262102AbUJZGIz (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:08:55 -0400 Received: from siaag1ae.compuserve.com ([149.174.40.7]:51900 "EHLO siaag1ae.compuserve.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261918AbUJZGFN (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:05:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:03:03 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: The naming wars continue... To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel , Bill Davidsen Message-ID: <200410260204_MC3-1-8D25-E041@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 844 Lines: 21 Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, > trying to make ready for the real 2.6.9 in a week or so, so please give > this a beating, and if you have pending patches, please hold on to them > for a bit longer, until after the 2.6.9 release. It would be good to have > a 2.6.9 that doesn't need a dot-release immediately ;) > > which is a hell of a lot more descriptive, in my opinion. Yes, but -rc is (was?) (should have been?) shorthand for exactly that. Nobody but the fanatics read the actual messages. The rest rely on abstractions. --Chuck Ebbert 26-Oct-04 02:03:05 - 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/