Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261328AbVCCCAa (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:00:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261325AbVCCB6w (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:58:52 -0500 Received: from smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.170.82]:21652 "HELO smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261336AbVCCBzO (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:55:14 -0500 From: Russell Miller To: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:56:14 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Cc: Andrew Morton , Jeff Garzik , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matt Mackall References: <20050302162312.06e22e70.akpm@osdl.org> <422666F9.4040807@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <422666F9.4040807@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503021756.15017.rmiller@duskglow.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 863 Lines: 26 On Wednesday 02 March 2005 17:23, Nick Piggin wrote: > 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. > Speaking as an "ordinary" end user (there's nothing ordinary about me) I think the idea of even/odd releases is silly. This accomplishes the same goals, and is less confusing all told. Linus's plan will work well for about... two releases, then people will wise up and stop testing the odd releases. I know that's what I'll probably end up doing. --Russell -- Russell Miller - rmiller@duskglow.com - Agoura, CA - 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/