Re: Release Policy [was: Linux 2.4.16 ]

[David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:39:34PM -0800, junio@siamese.dhis.twinsun.com wrote:
> >>>>> "MT" == Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> 
> MT> On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> Consistency is a Very Good Thing[TM] (says the one who tries to teach
> >> scripts to understand the naming.)  The advantage with the -rc naming is
> >> that it avoids the -pre5, -pre6, -pre-final, -pre-final-really,
> >> -pre-final-really-i-mean-it-this-time phenomenon when the release
> >> candidate wasn't quite worthy, you just go -rc1, -rc2, -rc3.  There is no
> >> shame in needing more than one release candidate.
> 
> MT> Agreed. I stick with the -rc naming convention for 2.4+... 
> 
> (This is a request to maintainers of three stable trees).
> 
> While we are on the topic, could you also coordinate to keep the
> EXTRAVERSION strings consistent?  2.4.X-preN uses "-preN" but
> 2.2.X-preN uses "preN" without leading "-".

I'm using "-preN" with a leading "-", and will probably continue
doing so.


Regards: David
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