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Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23:08:43 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>, Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
        Ian Molton <spyro@armlinux.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BK, deltas, snapshots and fate of -pre...
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Hi!

> > The well-defined resync points are the 2.5.N releases.  If -pre goes away,
> > then the dot-releases might need to come a little closer together, that's all.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> I've told myself that I shouldn't have done "-preX" releases at all in
> 2.5.x - the "real" numbers have become diluted by them, and I suspect the
> -pre's are really just because I got used to making them during the
> over-long 2.4.x time.

I believe -pre's are still important. Daily snapshots are too likely to be
broken, and "real" releases are different from -pre ones (with *usefull*
difference): you can ignore -pre release, but you can't ignore real release
(because real releases are relative to each other).

Having slightly more frequent real releases would be nice, but I believe
it is not feasible to make them as common as pre- patches.
								Pavel
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