Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:59:00 -0800
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:48:39 +0000 (GMT)
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > > I think the .EVEN and .ODD proposal would work a lot better than -rc ever
> > > would/could.
> > 
> > ...until people find out the "secret" that .ODD is really beta.  Then we are
> > back where we started.
> 
> Ah, but you are assuming people think logically and they don't.

Right, this discussion is about human behavior.  And unless someone
here is a PhD in human behavioral studies, none of us can really
say anything coherent about what will really happen.

But that's ok, because we can "try it out" and see what happens.
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