Re: Stable Release plan

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>]

lance wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 01:45:50PM +0100, lance wrote:
> > > All I am asking for is enough time to make a reasonable effort at making
> > > and shipping the version before the next version is released. If you want
> > > to have interim releases with minor fixes - why not call them 2.2r3.1 etc
> > > and produce an update iso rather than a complete new set of CD's ??
> >
> > Lance, I am most surprised that you would say this.
> >
> > We used to call the minor releases 1.2.1, 1.2.2 etc. The CD vendors
> > complained about the updates (as you are doing), so we changed the
> > naming scheme to 2.0r2, 2.0r3 etc so as to make the changes look
> > less minimal. Now you're asking that we change again?
> >
> 
> Sorry - the difference between 1.2.1, 1.2.2 and 2.1r2, 2.2r3 escapes me -
> is the 'r' supposed to have special meaning ??

short for "revision" which has the meaning of minor version.

Regards,

	Joey

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