Re: The naming wars continue...

[Chuck Ebbert]

Linus Torvalds wrote:

>       Ok,
>        trying to make ready for the real 2.6.9 in a week or so, so please give
>       this a beating, and if you have pending patches, please hold on to them
>       for a bit longer, until after the 2.6.9 release. It would be good to have
>       a 2.6.9 that doesn't need a dot-release immediately ;)
>
> which is a hell of a lot more descriptive, in my opinion.

  Yes, but -rc is (was?) (should have been?) shorthand for exactly that.

  Nobody but the fanatics read the actual messages.  The rest rely on abstractions.


--Chuck Ebbert  26-Oct-04  02:03:05
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