Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262677AbUJ0U3H (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:29:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262619AbUJ0U27 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:28:59 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:17631 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262677AbUJ0U2M (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:28:12 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:27:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: "l_linux-kernel@mail2news.4t2.com" cc: Bill Davidsen , Nick Piggin , William Lee Irwin III , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The naming wars continue... In-Reply-To: <20041027200805.GA17759@4t2.com> Message-ID: References: <4179F81A.4010601@yahoo.com.au> <417D7089.3070208@tmr.com> <20041027200805.GA17759@4t2.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1728 Lines: 48 On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, l_linux-kernel@mail2news.4t2.com wrote: > > > > which is a hell of a lot more descriptive, in my opinion. > > Indeed. But you hide this kind of information very carefully. > Announcing with a subject like this one isn't very descriptive. But that _wasn't_ in this idiotic thread. 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? And to everybody complaining about "-rcX" - people don't want to break existing scripts, so the naming possibilities are either "-pre" or "-rc". And we've used "-rc" for the whole 2.6.x series, so there had better be a _good_ reason to change the naming. 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? Linus - 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/