Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263451AbVCEAgy (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 19:36:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263461AbVCEAMj (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 19:12:39 -0500 Received: from mail8.fw-bc.sony.com ([160.33.98.75]:41443 "EHLO mail8.fw-bc.sony.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263147AbVCDXfH (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 18:35:07 -0500 Message-ID: <4228F087.70504@am.sony.com> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:34:31 -0800 From: Tim Bird User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Mackall CC: Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering References: <20050302235206.GK3163@waste.org> In-Reply-To: <20050302235206.GK3163@waste.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 879 Lines: 26 Matt Mackall wrote: > One last plea for the 2.4 scheme: > > I think naming the interim releases -pre/-rc has done this admirably > for 2.4. I agree. This makes more sense to me than some implicit understanding about the parity of the revision. rc is easy to understand, and '-pre' is easy to understand once you recognize it means 'beta'. I've been bothered in the 2.6 series that rc ("release candidate"?) tags were applied to kernels that were clearly NOT release candidates. ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Electronics ============================= - 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/