Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261332AbVCCB2j (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:28:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261367AbVCCBYN (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:24:13 -0500 Received: from smtp209.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.117]:52383 "HELO smtp209.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261200AbVCCBXV (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:23:21 -0500 Message-ID: <422666F9.4040807@yahoo.com.au> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:23:05 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Debian/1.7.5-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Jeff Garzik , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matt Mackall Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering References: <42264F6C.8030508@pobox.com> <20050302162312.06e22e70.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050302162312.06e22e70.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1071 Lines: 38 Andrew Morton wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> IMO too confusing. >> > > 2.6.even: bugfixes only > 2.6.odd: bugfixes and features. > > That doesn't even confuse me! > I actually second Matt's request; -RCs ? la 2.4. Then your above becomes: 2.6.x-rc: bugfixes only 2.6.x-pre: bugfixes and features And then that doesn't confuse end users either. Not to mention that if we adopt a strict release candidate release style (ie. last -rc is renamed to release), then you get to move some of the burden of testing to the end user. Hopefully that will encourage more people to test -rcs rather than "tricking" them into doing the testing. And if we really make an effort to only do the first -rc with the expectation that it will be the *only* one, then that will be a pretty good incentive to test. Nick - 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/