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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Release Policy [was: Linux 2.4.16  ]
Date: 26 Nov 2001 10:12:50 -0800
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Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111261351160.13786-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
By author:    Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> No. Just the -pre-final is a -pre-final. :) 
> 
> -pre-final basically means that this is the "candidate" release for the
> final.
> 
> I could call it "candidate" or whatever (I don't really care about the
> name).
> 

That's what a release candidate is.  Expect the possibility that you
might have more than one release candidate.

The -rc scheme proposed seems very clean indeed.

Oh, and yes, if you settle on a naming scheme, *please* let me know
ahead of time so I can update the scripts to track it, rather than
finding out by having hundreds of complaints in my mailbox...

	-hpa
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