Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262989AbVCDSzY (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 13:55:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262986AbVCDSzY (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 13:55:24 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:60329 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262990AbVCDSmp (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 13:42:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4228AC10.2080606@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:42:24 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe , tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering References: <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> <20050304091612.GG14764@suse.de> <20050304012154.619948d7.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: 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: 599 Lines: 22 Or to put it more simply: The people we want testing these kernels have been trained to expect certain things from a Release Candidate. These people don't have time to read LKML and understand Linus's deviation from the norm. Therefore, if you want them to test, follow their expectations. As I said... it's a human not technical issue. Jeff - 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/