Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

[Chris Wright]

* Linus Torvalds (torvalds@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > 
> > Why should there be one? One of the things I like about this concept is
> > that it's just a moving tree. There could be daily snapshots like the
> > -bkX "releases" of Linus's tree, if there are changes from the day
> > before. It means (hopefully) that no one will "wait for x.y.z.2 because
> > that is really stable".
> 
> Exactly. Th ewhole point of this tree is that there shouldn't be anything 
> questionable in it. All the patches are independent, and they are all 
> trivial and small.
> 
> Which is not to say there couldn't be regressions even from trivial and 
> small patches, and yes, there will be an outcry when there is, but we're 
> talking minimizing the risk, not making it impossible.

OK.  I was aniticpating people's request for an official 2.6.x.y release
(since I've already had that request a bunch).  But as long as the
snapshot can be easily identified in the unlikely case of a regression,
then snapshot could be good enough.
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