From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Zaytsev Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 00:52:14 +0400 Message-ID: References: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from mail-qw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.216.46]:50395 "EHLO mail-qw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752532Ab1EWUwP (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2011 16:52:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, DRI , linux-fsdevel , linux-mm , Andrew Morton , Greg KH On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 00:33, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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. Maybe, 2011.x, or 11.x, x increasing for every merge window started this year? This would better reflect the steady nature of the releases, but would certainly break a lot of scripts. ;)