From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail6.bemta12.messagelabs.com (mail6.bemta12.messagelabs.com [216.82.250.247]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6DB96B0012 for ; Mon, 23 May 2011 19:34:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-vw0-f41.google.com (mail-vw0-f41.google.com [209.85.212.41]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id p4NNXXv5028059 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL) for ; Mon, 23 May 2011 16:33:33 -0700 Received: by vws4 with SMTP id 4so6559315vws.14 for ; Mon, 23 May 2011 16:33:32 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4DDAEC68.30803@zytor.com> References: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> <20110523231721.GM10009@thunk.org> <4DDAEC68.30803@zytor.com> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 16:33:12 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ted Ts'o , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, DRI , linux-fsdevel , linux-mm , Andrew Morton , Greg KH Another advantage of switching numbering models (ie 3.0 instead of 2.8.x) would be that it would also make the "odd numbers are also numbers" transition much more natural. Because of our historical even/odd model, I wouldn't do a 2.7.x - there's just too much history of 2.1, 2.3, 2.5 being development trees. But if I do 3.0, then I'd be chucking that whole thing out the window, and the next release would be 3.1, 3.2, etc.. And then in another few years (probably before getting close to 3.40, so I'm not going to make a big deal of 3 = "third decade"), I'd just do 4.0 etc. Because all our releases are supposed to be stable releases these days, and if we get rid of one level of numbering, I feel perfectly fine with getting rid of the even/odd history too. 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