Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:42:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:42:38 -0500 Received: from otter.mbay.net ([206.40.79.2]:4624 "EHLO otter.mbay.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:42:25 -0500 From: John Alvord To: Sven Vermeulen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Release Policy [was: Linux 2.4.16 ] Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 07:42:13 -0800 Message-ID: <10d70uc78emevo2h95o6ldhrdr2tgo656v@4ax.com> In-Reply-To:

<9tu0n2$sav$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <20011126192902.M5770@khan.acc.umu.se> <3C028A8D.8040503@zytor.com> <20011126161802.A8398@xi.linuxpower.cx> <20011127154323.B513@Zenith.starcenter> In-Reply-To: <20011127154323.B513@Zenith.starcenter> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.553 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:43:23 +0100, Sven Vermeulen wrote: >On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:18:02PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> Why not just disguard this sillyness of alphabetic characters in version >> numbers... Just carry through the same structure used by major/minor: >> I.e. >> >> 2.0.39 < released 2.0.39 >> 2.0.39.1.1 < first development snapshot of the kernel which will eventually >> be 2.0.40 >> 2.0.39.1.2 < second >> 2.0.39.1.n < Nth >> 2.0.39.2.1 < first RC >> 2.0.39.2.2 < second RC >> 2.0.39.3.1 < opps! Development went too long and we had to break feature >> freeze to add important features. >> 2.0.39.4.1 < Trying to stablize again >> 2.0.39.4.2 < a few more bugs fixxed >> 2.0.40 < Looks like 2.0.39.4.2 got it right! > >Some people may find this more "logical", but imho most will find it >confusing... It's already difficult to inform someone about the >(number).(even|odd).(release)-(patch|pre-final) scheme. I'm more into > -pre: added some features, bugfixes etc... > -fc : feature-freeze, only bugfixes >and having some time (f.i. 48h) between the last -fc and the "real" release >(without having a single addendum to the ChangeLog). The bug-fixes only would have to be tightly defined. All of 2.4.0-2.4.15 were bug-fixes in some sense... john - 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/