linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19 -mm merge plans

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Date:	Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:57:56 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19 -mm merge plans

On Monday, 25 September 2006 13:53, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.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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