Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932151AbWIVA7V (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:59:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932155AbWIVA7V (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:59:21 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:43160 "EHLO pixels.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932151AbWIVA7U (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:59:20 -0400 Message-ID: <45133666.2060601@tmr.com> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:03:34 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060910 SeaMonkey/1.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.19 -mm merge plans References: <20060920135438.d7dd362b.akpm@osdl.org> <45121382.1090403@garzik.org> <20060920220744.0427539d.akpm@osdl.org> <1158830206.11109.84.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060921105959.a55efb5f.akpm@osdl.org> <45130533.2010209@tmr.com> <45130527.1000302@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: <45130527.1000302@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1700 Lines: 34 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I think it would help if you went back to using meaningful names for >> releases, because 2.6.19-test1 is pretty clearly a test release even >> to people who can't figure out if a number is odd or even. Then after >> people stop reporting show stoppers, change to rc numbers, where rc >> versions are actually candidates for release without known major bugs. > > > Actually, considering our group of developers, I think "-rc" has been > remarkably successful at staying on the "bug fixes only" theme. > Perhaps I misread what Linus said, the issue I was suggesting be addressed was one of clarity to the testers, not the developers. The releases identified as test would be for evaluation, while the ones identified as rc would really be candidates with no "fix before next version" bugs known. I would think that between test releases some bugs could be fixed, but new features could be added. That would encourage more active testing without overly slowing the development process. Having used that for a long time for 2.2 and 2.4 I think there's quite a track record of that nomenclature being clear to the users. -- Bill Davidsen Obscure bug of 2004: BASH BUFFER OVERFLOW - if bash is being run by a normal user and is setuid root, with the "vi" line edit mode selected, and the character set is "big5," an off-by-one errors occurs during wildcard (glob) expansion. - 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/