Re: Linux 3.12 released .. and no merge window yet .. and 4.0 plans?

Alexander Holler
2013-11-04T17:45:48Z

Am 04.11.2013 01:10, schrieb Linus Torvalds:

(...)
> Onto a totally different topic: we're getting to release numbers where
> I have to take off my socks to count that high again. I'm ok with
> 3.<low teens>, but I don't want us to get to the kinds of crazy
> numbers we had in the 2.x series, so at some point we're going to cut
> over from 3.x to 4.x, just to keep the numbers small and easy to
> remember. We're not there yet, but I would actually prefer to not go
> into the twenties, so I can see it happening in a year or so, and
> we'll have 4.0 follow 3.19 or something like that.
>
> Now, it's just a number (since we've long since given up on
> feature-related releases), and it's at least a year away, so why do I
> even mention it at all?
(...)
> Comments?

You could go towards the lovely number Pi (π):

3.12
3.13
3.14
3.141
3.1415
3.14159
3.141592
3.1415926
(...)
4.0

That would

- not be crazy numbers,
- make some math loving people happy,
- make people remembering that number,
- be a test for broken version number parsers,
- not as boring as usual version numbers,
- be in good tradition (e.g. TeX),
- make some maintainers hate me for that suggestion, ;)
- ...

Regards,

Alexander Holler