Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262398AbVCDE0W (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:26:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261557AbVCCTlt (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:41:49 -0500 Received: from 213-239-205-147.clients.your-server.de ([213.239.205.147]:49322 "EHLO mail.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262340AbVCCTPt (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:15:49 -0500 Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Greg KH , "David S. Miller" , Andrew Morton , LKML In-Reply-To: <20050303170808.GG4608@stusta.de> References: <42268749.4010504@pobox.com> <20050302200214.3e4f0015.davem@davemloft.net> <42268F93.6060504@pobox.com> <4226969E.5020101@pobox.com> <20050302205826.523b9144.davem@davemloft.net> <4226C235.1070609@pobox.com> <20050303080459.GA29235@kroah.com> <4226CA7E.4090905@pobox.com> <20050303170808.GG4608@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:15:35 +0100 Message-Id: <1109877336.4032.47.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 (2.0.3-2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 669 Lines: 20 On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 18:08 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This only attacks part of the problem. It still does not solve the problem of "untested" releases. Users will still ignore the linus-tree-rcX kernels. So we move the real -rcX phase after the so called stable release. Doing -rcX from the "sucker" tree up to a stable release makes much more sense and would have more testers and get back lost confidence. tglx - 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/