Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262597AbVCDJ36 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 04:29:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262703AbVCDJ1E (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 04:27:04 -0500 Received: from smtp205.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.129.95]:32618 "HELO smtp205.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262711AbVCDJYX (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 04:24:23 -0500 Message-ID: <42282944.6020006@yahoo.com.au> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 20:24:20 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Debian/1.7.5-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering References: <20050302205826.523b9144.davem@davemloft.net> <4226C235.1070609@pobox.com> <20050303080459.GA29235@kroah.com> <4226CA7E.4090905@pobox.com> <422751C1.7030607@pobox.com> <20050303181122.GB12103@kroah.com> <20050303151752.00527ae7.akpm@osdl.org> <20050303234523.GS8880@opteron.random> <20050303160330.5db86db7.akpm@osdl.org> <20050304025746.GD26085@tolot.miese-zwerge.org> <20050303213005.59a30ae6.akpm@osdl.org> <1109924470.4032.105.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <20050304005450.05a2bd0c.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050304005450.05a2bd0c.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1413 Lines: 39 Andrew Morton wrote: > Thomas Gleixner wrote: > >>I don't see that the releases are stable. They are defined stable by >>proclamation. > > > If they were stable we'd release the darn things! *obviously* -rc kernels > are expected to still have problems. > Release the -rc kernel when it is stable. Then people will test them, and then they'll hopefully catch the small annoyances that give our real releases a bad reputation. > -rc just means "please start testing", not "deploy me on your corporate > database server". > > People are smart enough to know that -rc3 will be less buggy than -rc1. > > And if they're worried about bugs then why are they running -rc's at all? > Well they aren't in the current scheme. When doing real release candidates, they'll test* because they _are_ worried about bugs, and testing an -rc is an easy way to get all your little compilation problems fixed, and all your strage usb drivers working again for the realease. And without someone rewriting the page table code in the meantime. I could be completely wrong, but that's my feeling. * Maybe not on their live corporate database server though - 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/