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From: el es <el_es_cr@yahoo.co.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Kernel version : what about s.yy.ww.tt scheme ?
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:51:19 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20080717T083755-676@post.gmane.org> (raw)

Hello,
inspired by the bikeshed painting contest, I got the following idea :

The scheme to be s.yy.ww.tt, that is :

s - series, as it is now (freedom to Linus to bump it to 3 when BKL is removed
for example ;) )

yy - two (in a hundred years, three) digits of the year

Now the interesting part begins which is

ww - the number of the week of the release. This will be between 1 and 52 (53)

tt - the number of the week of stable release. As above.

I see it like :

Take a hypotetical new-scheme 2.8.30 release (roughly the current 2.6.26, didn't
count these weeks). Linus starts to accumulate patches for 2.8.30-rcX as usual,
and when he is ready to release, puts the release week number instead of 30 -
let's assume it is a 2.8.40 then, more or less. By the time, the stable team
produces 2.8.30.[32,34,36,38,40 and so on]. If the weeks leap into the next
year, stable team puts e.g. 2.8.30.9.01 (yy.ww). This scheme would reflect the
fast pace of development quite good, and also have the information, when the
code in question was produced actually. I think the weekly granularity is quite
good idea anyway.

What do you think ?




             reply	other threads:[~2008-07-17  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-17  8:51 el es [this message]
2008-07-17  9:48 ` Kernel version : what about s.yy.ww.tt scheme ? Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-17 10:38   ` el es
2008-07-17 14:27     ` Justin Mattock
2008-07-18  9:12       ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-18 16:24         ` Justin Mattock
2008-07-20 18:14   ` Willy Tarreau
2008-07-21  7:57     ` el es
2008-07-21  9:18       ` david
2008-07-22 12:30         ` el es
2008-07-17 23:02 ` david
2008-07-18  8:31   ` el es
2008-07-18 15:24   ` Kernel version : what about YYYY.MM.[01].x ? Athanasius
2008-07-22 15:18     ` el es

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