Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 19:37:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, akpm@osdl.org,
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Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering
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On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> If we want a calming period, we need to do development like 2.4.x is 
> done today.  It's sane, understandable and it works.

No. It's insane, and the only reason it works is that 2.4.x is a totally
different animal. Namely it doesn't have the kind of active development AT
ALL any more. It _only_ has the "even" number kind of things, and quite 
frankly, even those are a lot less than 2.6.x has.

> 2.6.x-pre: bugfixes and features
> 2.6.x-rc: bugfixes only

And the reason it does _not_ work is that all the people we want testing 
sure as _hell_ won't be testing -rc versions.

That's the whole point here, at least to me. I want to have people test 
things out, but it doesn't matter how many -rc kernels I'd do, it just 
won't happen. It's not a "real release".

In contrast, making it a real release, and making it clear that it's a 
release in its own right, might actually get people to use it. 

Might. Maybe.

			Linus
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