From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261963AbVEaQzI (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2005 12:55:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261970AbVEaQwK (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2005 12:52:10 -0400 Received: from mail.capitalgenomix.com ([143.247.20.203]:53911 "EHLO mail.capitalgenomix.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261984AbVEaQqs (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2005 12:46:48 -0400 Message-ID: <429C94B7.1090005@capitalgenomix.com> Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 12:45:43 -0400 From: "Fao, Sean" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Schneelocke Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, webmaster@kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel Version Explanation References: <20050529140945.GA4815@cgx-mail.capitalgenomix.com> <20050529112523.17f6e8fa.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <429A792F.9070806@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Schneelocke wrote: >On 30/05/05, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > >>>It looks to me like the word "stable" is overused on the main page >>>at www.kernel.org . >>> >>> >>That's because there isn't an odd-number series right now. >> >> > >Will there ever be one again (at least in the foreseeable future)? >We've had "Linus = stable, -mm = unstable" for a long time now, and it >seems pretty much official now that there won't be a 2.7 anytime soon. >The actual development of new features is happening in the relevant >maintainers' trees, anyway, so there simply seems to be no need for a >single highly development-oriented tree (like 2.5 was) anymore - quite >the contrary. > > My understanding was that Linus eventually decided upon something in the middle. I understood that there still wouldn't be a 2.7.x branch (unless major changes occurred, which would severely risk breaking the stable tree). However, it was also my understanding that Linus would return to the even/odd version system; but, would do so in the rev. In other words, 2.6.even would be stable, while 2.6.odd would be development. I did, however, become slightly confused when I connected to http://www.kernel.org and noticed that the latest stable kernel was 2.6.11.11 because it's both odd and contains four version numbers rather than the three, which we've usually seen. Hope that clears up what my confusion is. Thank you, -- Sean E. Fao