Dear David Brownell,
In message 200904250105.41050.david-b@pacbell.net you wrote:
Yes. The issue is needing to guess what's up ... so for example, I seem to observe that "merge window closed" must not be the same as "first RC is out", which isn't how the Linux process works. But that's the only example I've seen for how the new u-boot cycles should work...
Maybe I pout a little more meaning in the words "release candiate". After the end of a merge window, there is usually still a long backlog of patches that has not been merged, and after that there are several rounds of debugging / bug fixing needed. IMO it makes little sense to call anything in this state a "release candiate".
That's why we still have no "rc" in the current release cycle.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk