From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Release Policy [was: Linux 2.4.16 ]
Date: 26 Nov 2001 10:12:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9tu0n2$sav$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0111261216500.88-100000@rc.priv.hereintown.net> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111261351160.13786-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111261351160.13786-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
By author: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> No. Just the -pre-final is a -pre-final. :)
>
> -pre-final basically means that this is the "candidate" release for the
> final.
>
> I could call it "candidate" or whatever (I don't really care about the
> name).
>
That's what a release candidate is. Expect the possibility that you
might have more than one release candidate.
The -rc scheme proposed seems very clean indeed.
Oh, and yes, if you settle on a naming scheme, *please* let me know
ahead of time so I can update the scripts to track it, rather than
finding out by having hundreds of complaints in my mailbox...
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-26 18:16 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 [this message]
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
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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