Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 00:11:03 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: jochen@tolot.escape.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering
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Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>  > It won't help that at all.  None of these proposals will increase testing
>  > of tip-of-tree.  In fact the 2.6.x proposal may decrease that level of
>  > that testing, although probably not much.
> 
>  Giving humans a well-known point where bugfixes-only mode starts would 
>  help.  Such as the -pre/-rc split does in 2.4.x.

Yup, sure.  I agree that we should be using Marcelo methodology on 2.6.x
release numbering.  Last time I mentioned it to Linus I didn't understand
the reply ;)


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