From: porpen <porpen@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 00:47:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110525044718.GA4647@bench> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=PLuZhx1=rCfOtg=aOTuC1UbuPYg@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:13:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> PS. The voices in my head also tell me that the numbers are getting
> too big. I may just call the thing 2.8.0. And I almost guarantee that
> this PS is going to result in more discussion than the rest, but when
> the voices tell me to do things, I listen.
With all the discussion about matching the year, keeping the numbers smallish and breaking build/test scripts...
Why not match the year this way: v2.11 = 2011
So, to get there, how about:
v2.6.39 current
v2.6.40
v2.7.? (see below)
v2.11.0 sometime this year maybe or skipped.
v2.12.? early 2012.
v2.13.? early 2013.
and so on...
To hell with making the months match up to anything. IMHO, that's micromanaging BS that will cause recurring troubles forever.
Advantages:
-Build & test scripts won't break for a while. (see note about this below)
-Major and Minor numbers together approximately match the year of release.
-Subreleases don't get too big. e.g. with 2 week releases, v2.12.x might reach .26 or .27 and resets with v2.13.0
Disadvantages:
-in the year 2100 the version will have to leap to v21.0 and that numbering will last until v29.99 or so.
-most of us won't live long enough to see v31.14 or v42.0
The build scripts would finally break in the year 25500 with the step after kernel v254.99.?. I suspect one of our decendants in the next 23.5 thousand years can figure out how to fix that.
IMHO, this may be a least effort compromise between the keep-numbers-small camp, the match-the-year camp and the don't-break-scripts camp.
Of course, math junkies like me would love to see v2.7.18.28 at some point in the process. Could we jump straight to that just before we leap to v2.11.0 or whatever numbering is chosen please?
-phil
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Thread overview: 106+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-23 19:13 (Short?) merge window reminder Linus Torvalds
2011-05-23 19:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-23 19:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-23 19:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-23 19:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-23 20:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-23 20:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-23 20:52 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2011-05-23 20:52 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2011-05-25 14:12 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-05-25 14:12 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-05-25 22:21 ` Tony Luck
2011-05-25 22:21 ` Tony Luck
2011-05-26 16:38 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-05-26 16:38 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-05-27 5:44 ` Keith Curtis
2011-05-27 14:29 ` Zero bugs (was Re: (Short?) merge window reminder) Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-28 22:03 ` Florian Mickler
2011-06-01 23:49 ` Keith Curtis
2011-05-23 21:41 ` (Short?) merge window reminder Yuhong Bao
2011-05-23 21:59 ` Oliver Pinter
2011-05-23 21:59 ` Oliver Pinter
2011-05-23 22:21 ` Greg KH
2011-05-23 22:21 ` Greg KH
2011-05-23 23:40 ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-05-23 23:40 ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-05-23 23:10 ` jonsmirl
2011-05-23 23:10 ` jonsmirl
2011-05-23 23:17 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-23 23:17 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-23 23:21 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-05-23 23:21 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-05-23 23:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-05-23 23:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-05-23 23:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-05-23 23:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-05-23 23:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-05-23 23:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-23 23:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-23 23:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-24 2:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-24 2:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-24 7:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-24 7:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-24 12:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-05-24 12:30 ` Jacek Luczak
2011-05-24 13:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-05-24 13:18 ` Jacek Luczak
2011-05-24 14:43 ` Alan Cox
2011-05-24 15:07 ` jonsmirl
2011-05-24 17:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-05-24 17:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-05-24 17:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-24 18:48 ` eschvoca
2011-05-24 21:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-05-25 9:12 ` Emil Langrock
2011-05-26 16:13 ` Sérgio Basto
2011-05-26 16:13 ` Sérgio Basto
2011-05-27 9:20 ` Lukasz
2011-05-24 15:46 ` Ralf Baechle
2011-05-24 17:29 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-05-25 1:13 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-25 12:26 ` Kasper Dupont
2011-05-25 20:48 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-24 14:41 ` Alan Cox
2011-05-24 14:41 ` Alan Cox
2011-05-24 14:48 ` Ralf Baechle
2011-05-24 14:48 ` Ralf Baechle
2011-05-24 14:48 ` Ralf Baechle
2011-05-24 14:48 ` Ralf Baechle
2011-05-24 14:48 ` Ralf Baechle
2011-05-23 23:53 ` Phil Turmel
2011-05-23 23:53 ` Phil Turmel
2011-05-24 2:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-24 2:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-24 18:06 ` Lisa Milne
2011-05-24 18:06 ` Lisa Milne
2011-05-24 20:59 ` Zimny Lech
2011-05-24 20:59 ` Zimny Lech
2011-05-25 15:03 ` Martin Nybo Andersen
2011-05-25 15:03 ` Martin Nybo Andersen
2011-05-24 18:34 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2011-05-24 18:34 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2011-05-24 18:55 ` david
2011-05-24 18:55 ` david
2011-05-24 21:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-24 21:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-25 12:52 ` Jiri Kosina
2011-05-25 12:52 ` Jiri Kosina
2011-05-24 23:00 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2011-05-24 23:00 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2011-05-23 19:22 ` Greg KH
2011-05-23 19:22 ` Greg KH
2011-05-23 20:04 ` James Bottomley
2011-05-23 20:04 ` James Bottomley
2011-05-23 19:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-23 19:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-23 20:21 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-05-23 20:21 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-05-23 21:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-05-23 21:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-05-24 19:06 ` Emil Langrock
2011-05-25 4:47 ` porpen [this message]
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2011-05-24 13:40 werner
2011-05-24 14:09 ` Jerome Glisse
2011-05-24 15:35 Albert Pool
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