Dear Leon,

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> 
> > * Intermediate releases, that might become necessary because of
> >  serious bugs or other major problems, shall be indicated by
> >  incrementing the "SUBLEVEL" field.
> > ...
> From experience with other open-source projects:
> 
> I would remove this level, and use the third level for stable branch
> bugfixes releases instead.

This was my original intention, too. But there were a couple of people
asking for ways to do hot fix releases if things were terribly broken.

> It is very unlikely to release feature-upgrade releases within one month/

Not feature upgrades; urgent bug fixes.


Frankly, I don't think that we need more than the regular, plain
releases. But some of us are customer-driven, so both stable trees and
bug fix releases may become necessary, and the suggested scheme allows
for both.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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