Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:17:52 +0200
From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: stable? quality assurance?
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Hi Rafael,

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 11:38:28PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > It's not really advisable to call dot-0 releases "unstable" because
> > it will only result in shifting the adoption point between the user
> > classes above.
> 
> IMnshO it's not exactly fair to call them "stable" either.  I tend to call them
> "major releases" which basically reflects what they are - events in the
> development process that each start a new merge window.  Nothing more, either
> way.

Indeed, just exactly that. Maybe the confusion comes from the title
"Latest Stable Kernel" on kernel.org, which we could rename "Latest
Kernel Release" whatever it reflects ?

Willy

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