From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.0.0b quickfix Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:46:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <7vpsnq3wrg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <43A9E15F.1060808@zytor.com> <1135244363.10035.185.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 22 18:47:19 2005 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EpUX3-0000M6-HP for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:47:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030180AbVLVRrK (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:47:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030237AbVLVRrK (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:47:10 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:35013 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030180AbVLVRrI (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:47:08 -0500 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id jBMHkYDZ014957 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:46:35 -0800 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id jBMHkTWx014930; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:46:31 -0800 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt In-Reply-To: <1135244363.10035.185.camel@gaston> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.57__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.129 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Wouldn't it make more sense for the maintenance release to be 1.0.1? > > Seconded. letters in versions are bad. With my MacOS background, for me, > "b" means "beta" :) FWIW, thirded. The kernel used to use letters too, and it's cute, but just using multiple levels of release numbers is much more common. Linus