From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19 -mm merge plans
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:57:56 +0200
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On Monday, 25 September 2006 13:53, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > OTOH, if we were worried about confusing people, we wouldn't be using 
> > the acronym 'rc' for our 'Ridiculous Count', and have our rc1 denote 
> > the result of 2 weeks of stuffing the tree with new features and 
> > intrusive changes, where people might mistake that for the much more 
> > common RC-as-in-'Release Candidate'. :)

Well, "release" need not mean anything really stable.  Let's think of it as
certain state of the tree that has been given a label for future reference.

> oh, we could call the first one -rc0 then :-)

Good idea, IMHO. :-)

Greetings,
Rafael


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