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Linus Torvalds: > Namely that we could adopt the even/odd numbering scheme that we used > to do on a minor number basis, and instead of dropping it entirely like > we did, we could have just moved it to the release number, as an > indication > of what was the intent of the release. How about taking the idea a bit further and have two active versions. Eg: now 2.6.11 is out, new changes go into a 2.6.13 series. Any changes to make 2.6.11 (more :) stable go into a 2.6.12 series which is stability/security/whatever improvements rather than devel work. This way you can shorten the length of the time the odd series spends in -rc and can spend more time accepting patches rather than having long periods where developers queue them. Distributors are encouraged to use the even numbers including the even -rc versions and to give feedback as to what stability/whatever patches need adding to the even series to keep them happy. Just an idea... Regards, Richard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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