Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3

Stefan Richter
2009-10-06T15:31:36Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> I.e. i think it's a fact that right now our release version is highly
> deceptive during the merge window.
[...]
> One option would be to make LOCALVERSION_AUTO compulsory.
>
> Or to add a tweak to the naming, something like:
>
> v2.6.31
> v2.6.31+
> v2.6.32-rc1
> v2.6.32-rc1+
[...]
> ... for the sole purpose of warning people that anything they pull after
> v2.6.31 got released is (wildly!) not vanilla v2.6.31 anymore.

If this scheme is meant to be something on which people can rely on,
everybody who commits to a tree from which Linus pulls from would have
to base their branches onto those ...+ commits, always.
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Stefan Richter
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