From: Per-Olof Pettersson <peope@peope.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Release Policy [was: Linux 2.4.16 ]
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:54:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C04DE6E.5020209@peope.net> (raw)
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> Why not just disguard this sillyness of alphabetic characters in version
> numbers... Just carry through the same structure used by major/minor:
>
Think this would be a superior naming-scheme.
However there are 2 audiences for the naming-scheme:
1. The developers, hackers (good scheme)
2. Users, Those who compile the kernel (bad scheme)
The naming-scheme you propose would make most sence for the first
category.. but for the second (and I speak for myself).. they would not
know that a X.X.X.2.1 would be RC1.
And one big part of changing the naming-scheme would be to get enough
users to try out the proposed kernel to eliminate big bugs like in
2.4.15 and 2.4.11.
Perhaps it is a PR-issue?
Then of course there is the matter of freezing development in a RC.. but
that can be done no matter what kind of naming-scheme you use.
Best regards
Per-Olof Pettersson
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2001-11-28 12:54 Per-Olof Pettersson [this message]
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2001-11-28 12:57 Release Policy [was: Linux 2.4.16 ] Per-Olof Pettersson
2001-11-26 17:52 Dana Lacoste
2001-11-26 17:59 ` John Jasen
2001-11-27 7:41 ` Anuradha Ratnaweera
2001-11-27 20:16 ` Bill Davidsen
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111261003070.13400-100000@freak.distro.cone ctiva>
2001-11-26 16:38 ` 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
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
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