Re: The naming wars continue...

[Clemens Schwaighofer]

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On 10/23/2004 07:05 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok,
>  Linux-2.6.10-rc1 is out there for your pleasure.
> 
> I thought long and hard about the name of this release (*), since one of
> the main complaints about 2.6.9 was the apparently release naming scheme. 
> 
> Should it be "-rc1"? Or "-pre1" to show it's not really considered release
> quality yet? Or should I make like a rocket scientist, and count _down_
> instead of up? Should I make names based on which day of the week the
> release happened? Questions, questions..

rc is release candidate. Which means its close to a release. Shouldn't
this be more a -test? -pre? count down? -rc-1 ? is this -1 or dash 1? :)

Well I think better stick with the count up way ...

Or is the time come, where the shall be a split to a real dev line ...

lg, clemens
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