linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3

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Date:	Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:29:48 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@...radead.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> I.e. i think it's a fact that right now our release version is highly 
> deceptive during the merge window.
[...]
> One option would be to make LOCALVERSION_AUTO compulsory.
> 
> Or to add a tweak to the naming, something like:
> 
>  v2.6.31
>  v2.6.31+
>  v2.6.32-rc1
>  v2.6.32-rc1+
[...]
> ... for the sole purpose of warning people that anything they pull after 
> v2.6.31 got released is (wildly!) not vanilla v2.6.31 anymore.

If this scheme is meant to be something on which people can rely on,
everybody who commits to a tree from which Linus pulls from would have
to base their branches onto those ...+ commits, always.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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