From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265228AbTLRQhf (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:37:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265237AbTLRQhf (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:37:35 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:33807 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265228AbTLRQhd (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:37:33 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: Can't wait for '2.8 or 3.0',or maybe: 2.8 followed by 2.10 ?? Date: 18 Dec 2003 16:26:02 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <200312181114.hBIBEMB3000252@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <00a501c3c564$fd4a91f0$0e25fe0a@southpark.ae.poznan.pl> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1071764762 13012 192.168.12.62 (18 Dec 2003 16:26:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <00a501c3c564$fd4a91f0$0e25fe0a@southpark.ae.poznan.pl>, Maciej Soltysiak wrote: | > I think we should consider introduce a policy of having .*beaver.* | > names for each 2.6.x release, and maybe drop the version numbers | > altogether during 2.7. | How about a naming policy of something going along this: | Stag (2.2) | Wolfling (2.4) | Beaver (2.6) | Rooster (2.7) | Ostrich (2.8) | Sharkey (2.9) | Cheetah (3.0) | | And all having names of animals. Like in Croatia, their local currency | has only pictures of animals and plants on the bills and coins. The stable releases should have the names of nice non-threatening herbivores, like beaver, and the development trees should have names of omnivores. Subreleases can have an adjective prepended, like singing, dancing, horny, constipated... well, maybe someone else should do the naming of subversions ;-) A good job by any name. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.