From: Emil Langrock <emil.langrock@gmx.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, DRI <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
"linux-fsdevel" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 21:06:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201105242106.47657.emil.langrock@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=PLuZhx1=rCfOtg=aOTuC1UbuPYg@mail.gmail.com>
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.
Correct :)
I would still prefer the version number change to something like 2011.0 -
already proposed at http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Kernel_Release_Numbering_Redux
I don't think that it is reasonable to say that it is bad because third party
scripts would break - they would break anyway (I would bet that many of them
don't expect to see 3.x anyway). And changing now to 3.0 and then incrementing
the second one everytime for 10 years will also lead to something like 3.56.7.
I would also say that defining the release number using the time of the merge
window start/end is easy understandable. "2.6.40" would be the third
development cycle this year aka v2011.2 or v2011.2.0 when the patchlevel
should always be included.
--
Emil Langrock
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-24 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-23 19:13 (Short?) merge window reminder Linus Torvalds
2011-05-23 19:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-23 20:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-23 20:52 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2011-05-25 14:12 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-05-25 22:21 ` Tony Luck
2011-05-26 16:38 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-05-23 21:59 ` Oliver Pinter
2011-05-23 22:21 ` Greg KH
2011-05-23 23:40 ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-05-23 23:10 ` jonsmirl
2011-05-23 23:17 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-23 23:21 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-05-23 23:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <4DDAEC68.30803@zytor.com>
2011-05-23 23:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-24 2:01 ` Ingo Molnar
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 17:41 ` 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
2011-05-27 9:20 ` Lukasz
2011-05-24 15:46 ` Ralf Baechle
2011-05-24 17:29 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-05-25 1:13 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-24 14:41 ` Alan Cox
2011-05-24 14:48 ` Ralf Baechle
2011-05-23 23:53 ` Phil Turmel
2011-05-24 2:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-24 18:06 ` Lisa Milne
2011-05-24 20:59 ` Zimny Lech
2011-05-25 15:03 ` Martin Nybo Andersen
2011-05-24 18:34 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2011-05-24 18:55 ` david
2011-05-24 21:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-25 12:52 ` Jiri Kosina
2011-05-24 23:00 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2011-05-23 19:22 ` Greg KH
2011-05-23 20:04 ` James Bottomley
2011-05-23 19:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-23 20:21 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-05-23 21:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-05-24 19:06 ` Emil Langrock [this message]
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