Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 01:06:31 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering
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Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> The reasons -rcs are not as good as they could be is that they include 
>  more than just bug fixes.

I thought we'd been fairly good about that, actually.  The -rc1's always
come too early for me (I usually wait for all the bk merges to happen). 
But once we hit -rc2 people are good?  At least, I think I've only ever
seen one "ytf did you merge that now" email...


<hack, hack>

Here you go: http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/khack.jpeg

That's number-of-lines-of-patch versus day, from the bk-commits list. 
There's definitely a pattern there ;)

(Raw data at
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/commits.data.gz for anyone
who is inclined to spend more that seven seconds with gnuplot...)

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