RE: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Massimo Cetra
Jochen Striepe wrote: > On 03 Mar 2005, Massimo Cetra wrote: > > So, why moving from 2.6.14 to 2.6.15 when, in 2/4 weeks, > i'll have a > > more stable 2.6.16 ? > > Will users help testing an odd release to have a good even > release ? > > Or will they consider an even release as important as

Re: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Jochen Striepe
Hi, On 03 Mar 2005, Massimo Cetra wrote: > So, why moving from 2.6.14 to 2.6.15 when, in 2/4 weeks, i'll have a more > stable 2.6.16 ? > Will users help testing an odd release to have a good even release ? Or will > they consider an even release as important as a -RC release ? From my exper

Re: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-02 Thread Ben Greear
Massimo Cetra wrote: So, why moving from 2.6.14 to 2.6.15 when, in 2/4 weeks, i'll have a more stable 2.6.16 ? Will users help testing an odd release to have a good even release ? Or will they consider an even release as important as a -RC release ? I think it would be useful for folks to test the

RE: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-02 Thread Sven-Haegar Koch
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Massimo Cetra wrote: Linus Torvalds wrote: Namely that we could adopt the even/odd numbering scheme that we used to do on a minor number basis, and instead of dropping it entirely like we did, we could have just moved it to the release number, as an indication of what was the in

RE: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-02 Thread Massimo Cetra
Linus Torvalds wrote: > Namely that we could adopt the even/odd numbering scheme that > we used to do on a minor number basis, and instead of > dropping it entirely like we did, we could have just moved it > to the release number, as an indication of what was the > intent of the release. > Co

Re: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-02 Thread Richard Purdie
Linus Torvalds: Namely that we could adopt the even/odd numbering scheme that we used to do on a minor number basis, and instead of dropping it entirely like we did, we could have just moved it to the release number, as an indication of what was the intent of the release. How about taking the idea