Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263429AbVCEAnq (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 19:43:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263516AbVCEAkJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 19:40:09 -0500 Received: from orb.pobox.com ([207.8.226.5]:44972 "EHLO orb.pobox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263318AbVCEAOb (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 19:14:31 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:14:22 -0800 From: "Barry K. Nathan" To: Steven Cole Cc: Jeff Garzik , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe , tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering Message-ID: <20050305001422.GF9796@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net> References: <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> <4228A9B9.4060308@pobox.com> <4228B1EB.4040503@mesatop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4228B1EB.4040503@mesatop.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1680 Lines: 36 On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:07:23PM -0700, Steven Cole wrote: > > Here's an idea which might just be too simple, but here it is anyway: > > Modifiy the bk snapshot scripts to name the 2.6.x series snapshots as -PREy > instead of -BKy. That way, the general population of users will see > the -bk snapshots as -pre releases. According to Linus, pre == bk. So, > name them as such. I heartily second this!! If "pre" == "bk", then make it "pre"! > Linus, wait for at least two weeks before releasing the first -rc. > That way, the bulk on the thundering herd of patches will be hopefully > be merged by then. And users will have 2.6.x-PRE[1..14] to test. > The hard part for the kernel.org script writer might be to disable > the -bk/-pre snapshot once the first -rc is out. Errh... personally, I find the -rc-bk snapshots to be useful sync points. They're also what seems to make it into davej's "rawhide"/"fc-devel" Fedora testing kernels. (Perhaps those don't get widely tested, but they do get *some* testing -- e.g. they're how I managed to hit (and get fixed) the TCP stack overflow.) I guess the best thing would be for the script to revert to the current ("-bk") naming scheme once -rc1 is out. Otherwise it would need to do, say, 2.6.12-rc2-pre1 instead of 2.6.12-rc1-bk1, and while that seems natural to me, I don't know how the rest of the planet's human population would react... -Barry K. Nathan - 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/