Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

Andrew Morton
2005-03-04T08:13:31Z

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > It won't help that at all. None of these proposals will increase testing
> > of tip-of-tree. In fact the 2.6.x proposal may decrease that level of
> > that testing, although probably not much.
>
> Giving humans a well-known point where bugfixes-only mode starts would
> help. Such as the -pre/-rc split does in 2.4.x.

Yup, sure. I agree that we should be using Marcelo methodology on 2.6.x
release numbering. Last time I mentioned it to Linus I didn't understand
the reply ;)