BK, deltas, snapshots and fate of -pre...
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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.
I agree.
I've told myself that I shouldn't have done "-preX" releases at all in 2.5.x - the "real" numbers have become diluted by them, and I suspect the -pre's are really just because I got used to making them during the over-long 2.4.x time.
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I believe -pre's are still important. Daily snapshots are too likely to be broken, and "real" releases are different from -pre ones (with *usefull* difference): you can ignore -pre release, but you can't ignore real release (because real releases are relative to each other).
Pavel, I think it is an delusion. In practical terms we have a string of -pre and traditional releases which differ really little in terms of reliability. I number of 2.5.x without -pre fail to compile different non-core modules. 2.5.9 hangs on boot on my machine, while -preX worked.
Marcelo pays more attention to stabilizing suffixless releases, and as well he should. However, I do not see how this can be meaningfuly done in 2.5.x. I am not going to shed any tears over the demise of -pre in unstable series, provided that releases get spaced tighter, with smaller patch size between them.
-- Pete