From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753803Ab3KDURp (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Nov 2013 15:17:45 -0500 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:44365 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751558Ab3KDURo (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Nov 2013 15:17:44 -0500 Message-ID: <527800A4.10808@ahsoftware.de> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 21:16:36 +0100 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Geert Uytterhoeven CC: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 3.12 released .. and no merge window yet .. and 4.0 plans? References: <5277D2C3.3020203@ahsoftware.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 04.11.2013 20:49, schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven: > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Alexander Holler wrote: >> 3.14 >> 3.141 >> 3.1415 >> 3.14159 >> 3.141592 >> 3.1415926 >> (...) >> 4.0 > > Since when does \pi converge to 4.0? The attention span of most people is usually limited, so they won't follow very long. Besides that people have a problem with very long numbers. So an end is needed. But extending that scheme to the stable series might be interesting too, producing stable kernels 3.14.1 3.14.15 ... and 3.141.5 3.141.59 ... That would lead to an interesting looking kernel.org page before switching to 4.0. And I assume it would make many people very happy when the kernel finally switches to 4.0. Regards, Alexander Holler