From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Release Policy [was: Linux 2.4.16 ]
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:49:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C028ED5.2000109@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111261524560.13976-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>>
>>Consistency is a Very Good Thing[TM] (says the one who tries to teach
>>scripts to understand the naming.) The advantage with the -rc naming is
>>that it avoids the -pre5, -pre6, -pre-final, -pre-final-really,
>>-pre-final-really-i-mean-it-this-time phenomenon when the release
>>candidate wasn't quite worthy, you just go -rc1, -rc2, -rc3. There is no
>>shame in needing more than one release candidate.
>>
>
> Agreed. I stick with the -rc naming convention for 2.4+...
>
I have updated the kernel.org scripts to recognize the -rc naming
convention. Any -rc patch found is assumed to be newer than any -pre
patch found.
I will try to add tracking of the v2.0 and v2.2 trees sometime later this
week.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-26 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111261003070.13400-100000@freak.distro.cone ctiva>
2001-11-26 16:38 ` Release Policy [was: Linux 2.4.16 ] David Relson
2001-11-26 15:33 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-26 17:14 ` David Relson
2001-11-26 21:15 ` Bill Davidsen
2001-11-26 17:22 ` Chris Meadors
2001-11-26 15:54 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-26 17:41 ` David Rees
2001-11-26 18:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-26 18:29 ` David Weinehall
2001-11-26 18:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-26 17:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-26 18:49 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-11-26 19:00 ` François Cami
2001-11-26 19:06 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-11-26 19:28 ` Flavio Stanchina
2001-11-26 19:43 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-11-26 19:36 ` David Weinehall
2001-11-26 20:39 ` junio
2001-11-26 20:55 ` David Weinehall
2001-11-26 20:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-26 21:18 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-11-27 8:02 ` Svein Erik Brostigen
2001-11-27 8:28 ` Allan Sandfeld
2001-11-27 9:08 ` Svein Erik Brostigen
2001-11-27 10:07 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-11-27 14:43 ` Sven Vermeulen
2001-11-27 15:01 ` Ian Molton
2001-11-27 15:42 ` John Alvord
2001-11-27 16:03 ` Michel Angelo da Silva Pereira
2001-11-26 18:48 ` Bjoern A. Zeeb
2001-11-26 23:15 ` J.A. Magallon
2001-11-27 1:04 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-27 1:13 ` Release Policy David S. Miller
2001-11-27 1:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-27 7:39 ` Anuradha Ratnaweera
2001-11-27 7:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-27 7:53 ` Anuradha Ratnaweera
2001-11-27 10:08 ` Harald Arnesen
2001-11-27 10:29 ` Keith Owens
2001-11-27 19:45 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-12-05 14:27 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-11-26 17:52 Release Policy [was: Linux 2.4.16 ] Dana Lacoste
2001-11-26 17:59 ` John Jasen
2001-11-27 7:41 ` Anuradha Ratnaweera
2001-11-27 20:16 ` Bill Davidsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-28 12:54 Per-Olof Pettersson
2001-11-28 12:57 Per-Olof Pettersson
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