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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:22:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Meadors <clubneon@hereintown.net>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Release Policy [was: Linux 2.4.16  ]
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> Sorry for not being able to discuss this issues... Its just that I'm too
> busy doing the maintenance and other stuff at Conectiva at the same time
> (people are flooding me with patches, btw, please stop for a while).
>
> Daniel Quinlan suggested me to release a "pre-final" release before the
> real final one (which would catch most "stupid" bugs), and I think thats a
> nice way of solving the problem.
>
> I'll _probably_ do that --- not sure yet, though.

Aren't all the -pre's pre-finals?  And what if there is a big bug found in
the -final, it will obviously be followed up with a -final-final?

I like the ISC's release methods.  The do -rc's (-pre's would be fine for
the kernel as it is already established), each -rc fixes problems found
with the previous.  When an -rc has been out long enough with no more bug
reports they release that code, WITHOUT changes.

-Chris
-- 
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said, "I might be..."                         --David Lynch, Twin Peaks

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