Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

Andrew Morton
2005-03-03T09:12:28Z

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> The reasons -rcs are not as good as they could be is that they include
> more than just bug fixes.

I thought we'd been fairly good about that, actually. The -rc1's always
come too early for me (I usually wait for all the bk merges to happen).
But once we hit -rc2 people are good? At least, I think I've only ever
seen one "ytf did you merge that now" email...

<hack, hack>

Here you go: http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/khack.jpeg

That's number-of-lines-of-patch versus day, from the bk-commits list.
There's definitely a pattern there ;)

(Raw data at
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/commits.data.gz for anyone
who is inclined to spend more that seven seconds with gnuplot...)