Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262906AbUJ0VWU (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:22:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262758AbUJ0VTQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:19:16 -0400 Received: from mproxy.gmail.com ([216.239.56.251]:34034 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262755AbUJ0VNN (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:13:13 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=TDdTdOhipccVFDTVZX30jxSf1Hm5GtUFA5fHUt1QMW91QEKeR0U7vf7Q+AWkOksJOy59mxzdSDLcAra2hbGDMRCjo+Ns4jx9He6tVXsMt9Prhoaxt6egufE6GWI16UYgl/pqeLmyVX3xv5PEP8lXmuUFoAeN3NMNoejzR4F3PI4= Message-ID: <21d7e997041027141358b05c41@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:13:06 +1000 From: Dave Airlie Reply-To: Dave Airlie To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: The naming wars continue... Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing Lists In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <4179F81A.4010601@yahoo.com.au> <417D7089.3070208@tmr.com> <20041027200805.GA17759@4t2.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1866 Lines: 43 > > The subject line of my announcement was > > Subject: Linux 2.6.9-rc4 - pls test (and no more patches) > > and the body was > > 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 ;) > > The appended shortlog gives a pretty good idea of what has been going on. > Mostly small stuff, with some architecture updates and an ACPI update > thrown in for good measure. > > (plus the shortlog). > > Not exactly "hidden", was it? To sum up, why don't you call everything before you reach this point -pre and then when you decide to write the mail and realise you want to say no more patches just check in patch calling it -rc ? you claim you don't know when to diffrentiate between -pre and -rc, (or maybe you don't care) well how do you decide to write the above e-mail? I think that would satisfy nearly everyone and I don't see what would be so different from your POV, but it is in the end up to you... > So far, nobody has had a good reason. People are just complaining, because > this is an area where you can complain without actually having any real > hard technical input. It's "easy" to have an opinion. > So guys, look at the big picture. Is this really worth worrying over? There has been a fair bit of bike shedding going on... so I think we should use some sort of timber and paint it red... Dave. - 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/