Re: 2.6.19 -mm merge plans

Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-09-25T18:55:25Z

On Monday, 25 September 2006 13:53, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> > OTOH, if we were worried about confusing people, we wouldn't be using
> > the acronym 'rc' for our 'Ridiculous Count', and have our rc1 denote
> > the result of 2 weeks of stuffing the tree with new features and
> > intrusive changes, where people might mistake that for the much more
> > common RC-as-in-'Release Candidate'. :)

Well, "release" need not mean anything really stable. Let's think of it as
certain state of the tree that has been given a label for future reference.

> oh, we could call the first one -rc0 then :-)

Good idea, IMHO. :-)

Greetings,
Rafael

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