linux-kernel - Re: A proposal; making 2.6.20 a bugfix only version.

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0611090053530.11200@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date:	Thu, 9 Nov 2006 00:54:35 +0100 (MET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Andreas Mohr <andi@...x01.fht-esslingen.de>
cc:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Subject: Re: A proposal; making 2.6.20 a bugfix only version.

>
>You *have* to release a new ""stable"" version rather fast (the .0 one)
>so that people will have that "new shiny version, get it while it's hot!"
>feeling and will realize rather quickly that that new version
>is all crap again after all and report their unhappiness.

Or they just silently revert to a kernel that worked.


	-`J'
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