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Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 04:31:33 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>>We have all these problems precisely because _nobody_ is saying "I'm 
>> only going to accept bug fixes".  We _need_ some amount of release 
>> engineering.  Right now we basically have none.
> 
> 
> Sorry Jeff, but that's crap.  Go look at the commits list.  Every single
> patch which has gone into the tree for the past two weeks is a bugfix, I
> think.

It's an an exaggeration, but what do users that don't follow daily 
kernel development see?

"oh, somewhere between -rc1 and -rc5 they got serious about taking only 
bugfixes.  Andrew Morton says it was the past few weeks... what -rc is 
that?"

	Jeff


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