Re: BK, deltas, snapshots and fate of -pre...

Andrew Morton
2002-04-21T04:32:49Z

"David S. Miller" wrote:
>
> From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 00:05:27 -0400 (EDT)
>
> FWIW, I doubt that dropping -pre completely in favour of dayly snapshots is
> a good idea - "2.5.N-preM oopses when ..." is preferable to "snapshot YY/MM/DD
> oopses when..." simply because it's easier to match bug reports that way.
> Having all deltas downloadable as diff+comment is wonderful, but it doesn't
> replace well-defined (and less frequent) resync points.
>
> Comments?
>
> I agree, make the daily's available but don't kill the -pre.

Dailies (nice) would need some distinguishing feature in EXTRAVERSION,
please. "-20Apr02" would suit. (I suspect if that started happening,
the -pre's would become redundant. But that can be decided at a later
stage)

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