Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:32:12 -0700 | From | "Barry K. Nathan" <> | Subject | Re: The naming wars continue... |
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:32:16PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: [snip] > >Which is just another reason why the name itself is not that meaningful. > >It can never carry the kind of information that people seem to _expect_ it > >to carry. > > I wasn't going to reply to this since it's your call and I've had my > say, but since several others have, let me throw out one more idea on > the off chance you like it: > > Stop doing the pre's on the next version! After 2.6.10 comes 2.6.10.1 > etc, which everyone can see are incremental changes to 2.6.10, and when > you really mean it, then put out 2.6.11-rc1. > > Did that strike a nerve?
2.6.10.1, etc. suggests important bug fixes for 2.6.10, *not* prereleases of 2.6.11. But... perhaps (with sufficient warning) the even/odd principle could be applied to the third number. So, this would happen:
2.6.even = release 2.6.even.x = release, with added bug/security fixes 2.6.odd = first (zeroth?) -pre/-rc release 2.6.odd.x = additional -pre/-rc releases
A more concrete example: 2.6.11-rc1, 2.6.11-rc2, 2.6.11-rc3, 2.6.11, 2.6.12-rc1, 2.6.12-rc2, 2.6.12 would become: 2.6.11, 2.6.11.1, 2.6.11.2, 2.6.12, 2.6.13, 2.6.13.1, 2.6.14
How does this sound? (It just occurred to me that this might break scripts, but it may be worth discussing anyway.)
-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>
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