From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 13:33:48 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, DRI , linux-fsdevel , linux-mm , Andrew Morton , Greg KH List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > I really hope there's also a voice that tells you to wait until .42 before > cutting 3.0.0! :-) So I'm toying with 3.0 (and in that case, it really would be "3.0", not "3.0.0" - the stable team would get the third digit rather than the fourth one. But no, it wouldn't be for 42. Despite THHGTTG, I think "40" is a fairly nice round number. There's also the timing issue - since we no longer do version numbers based on features, but based on time, just saying "we're about to start the third decade" works as well as any other excuse. But we'll see. Linus -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:42447 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753052Ab1EWUep (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2011 16:34:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> References: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 13:33:48 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, DRI , linux-fsdevel , linux-mm , Andrew Morton , Greg KH Message-ID: <20110523203348.9oYnXsF9eWTuRtYANR2lqC5uoYRJoD9XhP27l8Sym54@z> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > I really hope there's also a voice that tells you to wait until .42 before > cutting 3.0.0! :-) So I'm toying with 3.0 (and in that case, it really would be "3.0", not "3.0.0" - the stable team would get the third digit rather than the fourth one. But no, it wouldn't be for 42. Despite THHGTTG, I think "40" is a fairly nice round number. There's also the timing issue - since we no longer do version numbers based on features, but based on time, just saying "we're about to start the third decade" works as well as any other excuse. But we'll see. Linus