Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

Jeff Garzik
2005-03-03T09:34:41Z

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>We have all these problems precisely because _nobody_ is saying "I'm
>> only going to accept bug fixes". We _need_ some amount of release
>> engineering. Right now we basically have none.
>
>
> Sorry Jeff, but that's crap. Go look at the commits list. Every single
> patch which has gone into the tree for the past two weeks is a bugfix, I
> think.

It's an an exaggeration, but what do users that don't follow daily
kernel development see?

"oh, somewhere between -rc1 and -rc5 they got serious about taking only
bugfixes. Andrew Morton says it was the past few weeks... what -rc is
that?"

Jeff