Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261295AbVCCDpY (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:45:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261468AbVCCDmT (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:42:19 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:61139 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261401AbVCCDlX (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:41:23 -0500 Message-ID: <42268749.4010504@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:40:57 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: "David S. Miller" , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering References: <42264F6C.8030508@pobox.com> <20050302162312.06e22e70.akpm@osdl.org> <42265A6F.8030609@pobox.com> <20050302165830.0a74b85c.davem@davemloft.net> <422674A4.9080209@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1542 Lines: 42 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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". People don't test 2.6-rc releases because they know they are not "release candidate, with only bug fixes" releases, which is how the rest of the world interprets the phrase. Making them official releases in the even/odd manner is what neilb implies. You'll just be diminishing the value of releases. A "real release" won't be a real release anymore. You're just renaming the -rc that isn't really an -rc. Jeff - 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/