From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: kevin granade <kevin.granade@gmail.com>
Cc: "Artem S. Tashkinov" <t.artem@lycos.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: On Linux numbering scheme
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:00:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101022020006.GF19804@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimqNW7zArcjtOkBvrn-dk=YE0_RG+u3yoMDTjwV@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 07:06:23PM -0500, kevin granade wrote:
> Any particular reason not to continue the date-oriented format and
> have the third number be the numerical representation of the month
> rather than an incrementing numbering of the releases? It would still
> be monotonically increasing, which is the only requirement, right?
Why do we need to change it, anyway?
Al, fully expecting to be whined at for discouraging potential contributors
and horribly damaging Linux ecosystem by artificially increasing the entry
barrier, or something...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-22 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2010-10-21 20:02 ` On Linux numbering scheme Artem S. Tashkinov
2010-10-22 0:06 ` kevin granade
2010-10-22 2:00 ` Al Viro [this message]
2010-10-22 9:53 ` Athanasius
2010-10-22 17:36 ` Bill Davidsen
2010-10-22 21:57 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-25 9:08 ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-25 9:45 ` Artem S. Tashkinov
2010-10-25 9:56 ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-25 10:04 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2010-10-25 20:30 ` Nick Bowler
2010-10-26 10:24 ` Dick Streefland
2010-10-26 10:50 ` Martin Nybo Andersen
2011-01-06 8:31 ` Claudio Scordino
2011-01-06 8:59 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-01-08 14:49 ` Artem S. Tashkinov
2011-01-08 16:11 ` Greg KH
2011-01-09 12:54 ` Mark Hounschell
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2010-10-22 10:33 ` Artem S. Tashkinov
2010-10-22 10:41 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-10-22 11:18 ` Artem S. Tashkinov
2010-10-22 13:25 ` Genes MailLists
2010-10-22 16:51 ` kevin granade
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2011-01-08 16:45 ` Artem S. Tashkinov
2011-01-08 18:31 ` Greg KH
2011-01-09 17:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
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