From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: "Espen Fjellvær Olsen" <espenfjo@gmail.com>
Cc: Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@tequila.co.jp>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: The naming wars continue...
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:07:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4179CB07.8000405@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7aaed09104102216131170194b@mail.gmail.com>
Espen Fjellvær Olsen wrote:
> On 10/23/2004 07:05 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>>Ok,
>> Linux-2.6.10-rc1 is out there for your pleasure.
>>
>>I thought long and hard about the name of this release (*), since one of
>>the main complaints about 2.6.9 was the apparently release naming scheme.
>>
>>Should it be "-rc1"? Or "-pre1" to show it's not really considered release
>>quality yet? Or should I make like a rocket scientist, and count _down_
>>instead of up? Should I make names based on which day of the week the
>>release happened? Questions, questions..
>
>
> Do the -rcs first, let them contain everything that should go into the
> next release.
> And when you feel that you have released enough -rcs(Uh, whenever that
> is...) release the -pres.
> They should only contain critical bugfixes before the final release.
Well, several of us think that -pre's should come before the
-rc's and not after them.
It appears that we should concentrate on the
NAME=Zonked Quokka
part of Makefile for our sanity.
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-23 3:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-22 22:05 The naming wars continue Linus Torvalds
2004-10-22 22:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-10-22 22:53 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-10-22 23:13 ` Espen Fjellvær Olsen
2004-10-23 3:07 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-10-22 22:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-23 21:25 ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-25 21:44 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-26 1:27 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2004-10-26 21:24 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-22 23:18 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-10-22 23:46 ` Matt Mackall
2004-10-23 0:19 ` Con Kolivas
2004-10-23 1:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-23 1:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-23 1:08 ` alan
2004-10-23 2:52 ` Matt Mackall
2004-10-23 1:38 ` Matt Mackall
2004-10-23 1:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-29 18:33 ` cliff white
2004-10-23 3:03 ` Wakko Warner
2004-10-24 13:33 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-25 23:26 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-26 6:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-10-26 7:32 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-26 11:12 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-26 11:43 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-26 20:31 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-27 4:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-10-27 8:33 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-27 15:48 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-27 16:11 ` [OT] " Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-10-27 16:14 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-27 16:42 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-10-27 17:27 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-27 21:11 ` [uClibc] " Dave Dodge
2004-10-27 21:15 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-27 22:35 ` Dave Dodge
2004-10-27 23:04 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-29 14:46 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-10-27 19:17 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-27 19:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-10-29 14:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-10-29 14:54 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-29 15:11 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-10-27 20:13 ` The naming wars continue... [u] Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-10-27 20:35 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-10-27 21:35 ` Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-10-26 16:26 ` The naming wars continue Tonnerre
2004-10-26 11:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-26 16:22 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-23 6:20 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-25 21:30 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-25 22:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-25 22:46 ` Hua Zhong
2004-10-27 7:38 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-26 13:09 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-10-27 0:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-10-27 2:41 ` Marcos D. Marado Torres
2004-10-26 21:32 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-27 3:01 ` Marcos D. Marado Torres
2004-10-27 3:32 ` Barry K. Nathan
2004-10-27 19:23 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-27 7:37 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-27 20:08 ` l_linux-kernel@mail2news.4t2.com
2004-10-27 20:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-27 21:13 ` Dave Airlie
2004-10-27 21:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-27 22:52 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-10-27 22:54 ` Dave Airlie
2004-10-27 23:14 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-10-23 15:41 ` Stephen Frost
2004-10-23 21:51 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2004-10-24 0:02 ` Stephen Frost
2004-10-24 3:29 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2004-10-24 5:02 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-10-25 23:34 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-26 17:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
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
2004-10-23 14:34 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-23 0:04 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-23 0:43 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-10-23 21:03 ` Christian Hesse
2004-10-24 0:47 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-23 2:37 ` The naming wars continue... - net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_hashlimit.c does not build Eyal Lebedinsky
2004-10-23 3:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-23 11:23 ` The naming wars continue Erik Hensema
2004-10-23 13:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-23 15:45 ` Hans Reiser
2004-10-23 15:18 ` markus reichelt
2004-10-23 14:46 ` Taso Hatzi
2004-10-24 15:54 ` generic hardirq code in 2.6.10-rc1 Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-25 6:02 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-25 12:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-29 14:37 ` [patch] 2.6.10-rc1: SCSI aacraid warning Adrian Bunk
2004-10-29 14:45 ` Mark Haverkamp
2004-10-29 15:13 ` Mark Haverkamp
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-23 13:17 The naming wars continue Chuck Ebbert
2004-10-23 14:44 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-26 6:03 Chuck Ebbert
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