Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

[David S. Miller]

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:46:22 -0500
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If Linus/DaveM really don't like -pre/-rc naming, I think 2.6.x.y is 
> preferable to even/odd.

All of these arguments are circular.  If people think that even/odd
will devalue odd releases, guess what 2.6.x.y will do?  By that line
of reasoning nobody will test 2.6.x just the same as they aren't
testing 2.6.x-rc* right now.

I think they will test the odd releases, because as a real release
they will get slashdot/lwn.net/etc. announcements.

That's one of the major things the -rc's don't get.  Maybe it gets
a reference in lwn.net's weekly kernel article, but mostly kernel
geeks read those and that's not who we want testing -rc's (such
geeks already are doing so).

It has to be a "real" release.  That does have an impact.  However,
I am ambivalent about how to make them real.  Even/odd, 2.6.x.y,
either is fine with me.
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