Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261244AbVCJNz3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:55:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262616AbVCJNz3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:55:29 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:21677 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261244AbVCJNzX (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:55:23 -0500 Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 13:57:49 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Rene Herman , Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe , tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering Message-ID: <20050306125749.GO3485@openzaurus.ucw.cz> 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> <4228B514.4020704@keyaccess.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1163 Lines: 30 Hi! > > The fact that not a script, but Linus Torvalds, decides that the tree is > > in a state he likes to share with others. You have been doing -pre's all > > this time, it's just that you are calling them -rc's. > > No. > > I used to do "-pre", a long time ago. Exactly because they were > synchronization points for developers. > > These days, that's pointless. We keep the tree in pretty good working > order (certainly as good as my -pre's ever were) constantly, and > developers who need to can synchronize with either the BK tree or the > nightly snapshots. The fact is, 99% of the developers don't even need to Actually, sync to -pre is easier than sync to -bk snapshot: * you get incremental patches from kernel.org * there's reasonable number of pre-s so that you can be up-to-date without syncing each day Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms - 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/