From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: stable? quality assurance?
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:17:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100712041752.GG3514@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201007112338.28693.rjw@sisk.pl>
Hi Rafael,
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 11:38:28PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > It's not really advisable to call dot-0 releases "unstable" because
> > it will only result in shifting the adoption point between the user
> > classes above.
>
> IMnshO it's not exactly fair to call them "stable" either. I tend to call them
> "major releases" which basically reflects what they are - events in the
> development process that each start a new merge window. Nothing more, either
> way.
Indeed, just exactly that. Maybe the confusion comes from the title
"Latest Stable Kernel" on kernel.org, which we could rename "Latest
Kernel Release" whatever it reflects ?
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-12 4:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-11 7:18 stable? quality assurance? Martin Steigerwald
2010-07-11 8:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-07-11 14:22 ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-07-11 14:52 ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-07-11 15:58 ` William Pitcock
2010-07-11 16:34 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-07-16 6:59 ` Greg KH
2010-08-05 3:27 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-11 17:04 ` Heinz Diehl
2010-07-11 13:16 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-07-11 18:02 ` Anca Emanuel
2010-07-12 6:46 ` David Newall
[not found] ` <AANLkTilGjfx9sb66qVfZn1SeFPURHUrrdE7JCrild8VX@mail.gmail.com>
2010-07-12 12:35 ` Fwd: " Marcin Letyns
2010-07-12 12:42 ` Alexey Dobriyan
[not found] ` <AANLkTik64lxDiCN-eRo3i_-cTqAvCzbaRI4EEXoD44Vj@mail.gmail.com>
2010-07-12 12:52 ` Fwd: " Marcin Letyns
2010-07-12 14:57 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-07-12 15:56 ` David Newall
2010-07-12 17:48 ` Marcin Letyns
2010-07-12 18:00 ` Stefan Richter
2010-07-12 19:58 ` David Newall
2010-07-12 21:11 ` Stefan Richter
2010-07-12 21:39 ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-07-12 22:44 ` Stefan Richter
2010-07-15 7:23 ` david
2010-07-13 16:50 ` Theodore Tso
2010-07-13 20:45 ` David Newall
2010-07-14 6:33 ` Theodore Tso
2010-09-04 17:12 ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-07-11 13:56 ` Lee Mathers
2010-07-11 14:51 ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-07-11 17:22 ` Willy Tarreau
2010-07-11 21:38 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-07-12 4:17 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2010-07-12 9:56 ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-07-12 15:43 ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-07-12 17:36 ` Willy Tarreau
2010-07-12 19:56 ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-07-12 23:03 ` Stefan Richter
2010-07-13 10:30 ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-07-15 7:32 ` david
2010-07-12 17:55 ` Stefan Richter
2010-09-04 16:38 ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-09-04 18:46 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-04 19:11 ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-09-04 23:23 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-05 7:59 ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-09-04 19:24 ` Stefan Richter
2010-09-04 19:34 ` Stefan Richter
2010-09-04 20:21 ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-09-04 22:50 ` Stefan Richter
2010-09-04 23:16 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-05 8:35 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-05 9:48 ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-07-11 19:49 ` Stefan Richter
2010-07-13 11:11 ` Alejandro Riveira Fernández
2010-07-13 12:50 ` rt2x00: slow wifi with correct basic rate bitmap (was Re: stable? quality assurance?) Stefan Richter
2010-07-13 15:35 ` John W. Linville
2010-07-13 18:19 ` Alejandro Riveira Fernández
2010-07-13 18:38 ` John W. Linville
2010-07-13 19:07 ` Alejandro Riveira Fernández
2010-07-13 18:06 ` Alejandro Riveira Fernández
2010-07-13 19:18 ` Stefan Richter
2010-07-12 19:46 ` stable? quality assurance? Nix
[not found] ` <AANLkTimEdVsmIgXBbmhsq75ElQvGAI8avsM8-wlDpm4z@mail.gmail.com>
2010-07-15 9:09 ` Valeo de Vries
2010-07-16 7:00 ` Greg KH
2010-07-16 7:19 ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-07-16 15:25 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-07-16 15:34 ` Valeo de Vries
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-04 16:42 Martin Steigerwald
2010-09-04 17:22 ` Willy Tarreau
2010-09-04 19:33 ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-09-04 20:19 ` Willy Tarreau
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