Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752146AbWIXS6p (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:58:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752148AbWIXS6p (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:58:45 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:58019 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752146AbWIXS6o (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:58:44 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:51:00 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.19 -mm merge plans Message-ID: <20060924185100.GA20524@elte.hu> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.9 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.9 required=5.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts 0.5 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.5000] -0.1 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1030 Lines: 22 * Linus Torvalds wrote: > I think the "big merges in the first two weeks, and a -rc1 after, and > no new code after that" rule has been working because it brought > everybody in on the same page. yeah. I dont really support the even/odd release thing because even the old 1.2/1.3/2.0/2.1/2.2/2.3/2.4 scheme _always_ confused non-insiders. Sometimes i saw it confuse people who already understood the GPL ;-) Furthermore it would just dillute our version numbers to encode some information that "-rc1" indicates just as well. Insiders know perfectly well that when -rc1 is released the merge window is closed. And what causes -rc elongation is usually not the lack of communication towards users or lack of testing but the lack of fixing power ... Ingo - 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/