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Date based

Date based

Posted May 24, 2011 9:27 UTC (Tue) by epeeist (guest, #1743)
In reply to: Date based by neilbrown
Parent article: 2.8.0?

"We don't know precisely when the next version of Linux will be released, so we don't know what it's name will be, so we cannot give meaningful names to the -rc releases that precede it." So why not base the name on the month that it was started rather than the month that it was finished?


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