Enough with the ad-hoc naming schemes, please

[Matt Mackall]

Dear Linus,

I can't help but notice you've broken all the tools that rely on a
stable naming scheme TWICE in the span of LESS THAN ONE POINT RELEASE.

In both cases, this could have been avoided by using Marcello's 2.4
naming scheme. It's very simple: when you think something is "final",
you call it a "release candidate" and tag it "-rcX". If it works out,
you rename it _unmodified_ and everyone can trust that it hasn't
broken again in the interval. If it's not "final" and you're accepting
more than bugfixes, you call it a "pre-release" and tag it "-pre".
Then developers and testers and automated tools all know what to
expect.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

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