Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262686AbVCDFBG (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 00:01:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262152AbVCDE6N (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:58:13 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:55687 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261479AbVCCTjy (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:39:54 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:37:35 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Thomas Gleixner cc: Adrian Bunk , Jeff Garzik , Greg KH , "David S. Miller" , Andrew Morton , LKML Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering In-Reply-To: <1109877336.4032.47.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> Message-ID: 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> <1109877336.4032.47.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 930 Lines: 26 On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > It still does not solve the problem of "untested" releases. Users will > still ignore the linus-tree-rcX kernels. .. and maybe that problem is unsolvable. People certainly argued vehemently that anything we do to try to make test releases (renaming etc) won't help. So what do you do if you find an unsolvable problem? You don't solve it: you make sure it's not a show-stopper. So part of the idea of having the "other tree" is that it ends up solving the "hmm, we missed that detail" problem. And by _not_ giving it release numbers or any schedule at all, people can't _wait_ for it. Sneaky. That's my middle name. Linus - 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/