From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269505AbUJLIFr (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 04:05:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269507AbUJLIFq (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 04:05:46 -0400 Received: from krusty.dt.E-Technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE ([129.217.163.1]:25500 "EHLO mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269505AbUJLIFm (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 04:05:42 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:05:37 +0200 From: Matthias Andree To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc4 - pls test (and no more patches) Message-ID: <20041012080537.GA6092@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote: > trying to make ready for the real 2.6.9 in a week or so, so please give > this a beating, and if you have pending patches, please hold on to them > for a bit longer, until after the 2.6.9 release. It would be good to have > a 2.6.9 that doesn't need a dot-release immediately ;) How about Marcelo's policy that the -final version should differ from the last -rc only in the Makefile VERSION and nothing else (well, documentation perhaps if someone else has proofread it). Would you be ready to have the last -rc out for, say, five days, before releasing the official, final, blessed, however 2.6.9, in order to catch the showstoppers? -- Matthias Andree Encrypted mail welcome: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95 (PGP/MIME preferred)