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

Rob Landley (landley@trommello.org)
Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:53:23 -0400


On Sunday 21 April 2002 12:05 am, Alexander Viro wrote:

> 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.

The well-defined resync points are the 2.5.N releases. If -pre goes away,
then the dot-releases might need to come a little closer together, that's all.

Rob
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