Re: BK, deltas, snapshots and fate of -pre...

[Andrew Morton]

"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
>    From: Alexander Viro <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 00:05:27 -0400 (EDT)
> 
>    FWIW, I doubt that dropping -pre completely in favour of dayly snapshots is
>    a good idea - "2.5.N-preM oopses when ..." is preferable to "snapshot YY/MM/DD
>    oopses when..." simply because it's easier to match bug reports that way.
>    Having all deltas downloadable as diff+comment is wonderful, but it doesn't
>    replace well-defined (and less frequent) resync points.
> 
>    Comments?
> 
> I agree, make the daily's available but don't kill the -pre.

Dailies (nice) would need some distinguishing feature in EXTRAVERSION,
please.  "-20Apr02" would suit.  (I suspect if that started happening,
the -pre's would become redundant.  But that can be decided at a later
stage)

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