Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964841AbVKGQNG (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:13:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964842AbVKGQNF (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:13:05 -0500 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:5124 "EHLO khc.piap.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964841AbVKGQNE (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:13:04 -0500 To: Eric Sandall Cc: Willy Tarreau , Linus Torvalds , Russell King , Tony Luck , Paolo Ciarrocchi , linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: New (now current development process) References: <4d8e3fd30510291026x611aa715pc1a153e706e70bc2@mail.gmail.com> <12c511ca0510291157u5557b6b1x85a47311f0e16436@mail.gmail.com> <20051029195115.GD14039@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20051031064109.GO22601@alpha.home.local> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:12:57 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Eric Sandall's message of "Sun, 6 Nov 2005 20:54:30 -0800 (PST)") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 656 Lines: 16 Eric Sandall writes: > A -final should never be changed from the last -rc. That defeats the > purpose of having -rc releases (rc == 'release candidate' ;)). This logic is flawed. RCs are for performing tests. If you don't want further tests (for example, tests on previous RC completed and you're quite sure new changes introduce no new bugs) you don't need further RCs. -- Krzysztof Halasa - 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/