From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Subject: Re: The naming wars continue...
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:03:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410260204_MC3-1-8D25-E041@compuserve.com> (raw)
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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2004-10-26 6:03 Chuck Ebbert [this message]
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2004-10-27 19:23 ` Bill Davidsen
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2004-10-27 20:27 ` Linus Torvalds
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2004-10-27 21:25 ` Linus Torvalds
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2004-10-25 23:34 ` Tonnerre
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2004-10-23 22:16 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-10-23 22:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-24 8:52 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-23 1:35 ` Matt Mackall
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2004-10-23 13:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-23 15:45 ` Hans Reiser
2004-10-23 15:18 ` markus reichelt
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