Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261471AbVCCE1G (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 23:27:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261446AbVCCER7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 23:17:59 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:18398 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261364AbVCCEQk (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 23:16:40 -0500 Message-ID: <42268F93.6060504@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:16:19 -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: "David S. Miller" CC: torvalds@osdl.org, 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> <42268749.4010504@pobox.com> <20050302200214.3e4f0015.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20050302200214.3e4f0015.davem@davemloft.net> 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: 1278 Lines: 33 David S. Miller wrote: > On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:40:57 -0500 > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > >>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. > > > That's not %100 true. No matter what -rc* really is, people perceive > it to be something based upon it's name and whether or not it is an > official release. As far as I can see it's %95 perception vs. reality. > And IT IS part of the reason the -rc's are not as good as they could be. The reasons -rcs are not as good as they could be is that they include more than just bug fixes. Users are discouraged from testing because they must scan LKML, or guess, which -rc that Linus/Andrew started getting serious about "bugfixes only." With the -pre/-rc scheme, it's clear to users. With the even/odd scheme, you just devalue releases. Previously, all releases were worthy of testing and use. Now, half of them aren't. 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/