Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Mar 04 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >  > The average user has learnt "rc1 == pre1".  I don't expect that it
> > >  > matters much at all.
> > > 
> > >  The average user and lkml reader, perhaps. But I don't understand
> > >  why Linus refuses to use proper -preX/-rcX naming
> > 
> > Me either.  And because people just will insist on arbitrarily dinking with
> > Cc: lines, he's not listening to us any more.
> 
> I've long since decided that there's no point to making "-pre". What's the 
> difference between a "-pre" and a daily -bk snapshot? Really?
> 
> So when I do a release, it _is_ an -rc. The fact that people have trouble 
> understanding this is not _my_ fault.

What is this whole thread all about then?

It might still be worth a try, especially since so many people are 
convinced this is the way to go (your fault or not is not the point).


Nicolas
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