From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753237AbbCJOSV (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:18:21 -0400 Received: from m50-132.163.com ([123.125.50.132]:43746 "EHLO m50-132.163.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752427AbbCJOSQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:18:16 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:17:02 +0800 From: Yaowei Bai To: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: corbet@lwn.net, trivial@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] README: make the README agnostic to version numbers Message-ID: <20150310141702.GA6607@bbox> References: <1425391683-3550-1-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com> <20150306155938.GC8369@treble.redhat.com> <20150309153902.GA7742@bbox> <20150309163450.GD10815@treble.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150309163450.GD10815@treble.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-CM-TRANSID: DNGowEBp8mne_P5UavZGAg--.299S3 X-Coremail-Antispam: 1Uf129KBjvdXoWruF15trWkCF4xCw4kWr43Awb_yoWfCFg_ur 93Jr47tw47XFnxGwnagr4rGFW7GFW5XrWrtr95Jay8G3yrZFWjg3yj9wnavw13Ga1DGrnx GFyku3yI9ryagjkaLaAFLSUrUUUUUb8apTn2vfkv8UJUUUU8Yxn0WfASr-VFAUDa7-sFnT 9fnUUvcSsGvfC2KfnxnUUI43ZEXa7IU866wtUUUUU== X-Originating-IP: [114.216.25.82] X-CM-SenderInfo: xe1z5x5dretxi6rwjhhfrp/xtbBFAK4T1D+WYBeTgAAsG Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 11:34:50AM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > Personally I don't think the "4.x" numbers add anything to the > understanding of the document. Maybe the reason you think so is that you are quite familiar with the kernel, but we should also take care of the ones who are not familiar with it. For example, usually, README is the first file for these people to read, with version numbers in README, then one will acquire which era the kenrel is currently in. > And anyway, Linus doesn't update them to > 4.0, 4.1, etc per release, so it's not a real release file. > Even so, i still believe that's helpful with version number references in README. > > True, changing this file every 4 years or so isn't a big deal. But > Linux doesn't do _big_ changes any more, so whether its "3.x", "4.x", or > "x.y", the use cases and release notes are the same. Well, personally, i really don't think so. -- Yaowei > > -- > Josh