Re: [PATCH] docs: Correct the release date of 5.2 stable

[Billy Wilson <billy_wilson@byu.edu>]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 04:46:13PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 8/6/20 4:17 PM, Billy Wilson wrote:
> > A table lists the 5.2 stable release date as September 15, but it was
> > released on July 7. This may confuse a reader who is trying to
> > understand the stable update release cycle.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Billy Wilson <billy_wilson@byu.edu>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/process/2.Process.rst | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst b/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
> > index 3588f48841eb..4ae1e0f600c1 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
> > @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ than one development cycle past their initial release. So, for example, the
> >  5.2 kernel's history looked like this (all dates in 2019):
> >  
> >  	==============  ===============================
> > -	September 15 	5.2 stable release
> > +	July 7		5.2 stable release
> >  	July 14		5.2.1
> >  	July 21		5.2.2
> >  	July 26		5.2.3
> 
> Hi,
> For clarification, what 5.2 kernel do you find that was released on
> July 7, 2019?  IOW, what you consider the 5.2 stable release of that date?
> or where did you get that date?
> 
> thanks.
> 
> -- 
> ~Randy
> 

I found the date of July 7 at https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.2 . I
just double checked that date against the git tag for v5.2 (commit
0ecfebd2b524) and it looks like it matches.

September 15, meanwhile, is the 5.3 stable release date. I mainly
noticed this because the table uses the 5.2 release dates to illustrate
the stable update release cycle. I was scratching my head for a few
minutes trying to figure out why 5.2 had a date of September 15 and
5.2.1 had a date of July 14, until I realized it was a mistake.