Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

William Park
2005-03-04T18:41:48Z

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:57:38AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I've long since decided that there's no point to making "-pre". What's
> the difference between a "-pre" and a daily -bk snapshot? Really?
>
> So when I do a release, it _is_ an -rc. The fact that people have
> trouble understanding this is not _my_ fault.

My feeling is that there is too many numbers in the kernel version.
I think 3 numbers are good enough to get people to try out (knowingly or
not). So,
2.6.{11,12,13,...} -- for testing (a.k.a. -rc, -pre)
2.7 -- stable release
2.7.{1,2,3,...} -- for testing
2.8 -- another stable release
...
2.125 -- when last IDE bug is fixed.
3.0 -- stable release
3.0.{1,2,3,...} -- for testing
...