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Greg KH <greg <at> kroah.com> writes: > > Hi, > > You brought this topic up a few months ago, and passed it off as > something we would discuss at the kernel summit. But that never > happened, so I figured I'd bring it up again here. > > So, as someone who constantly is dealing with kernel version numbers all > the time with the -stable trees, our current numbering scheme is a pain > a times. How about this proposal instead? > > We number the kernel based on the year, and the numbers of releases we > have done this year: > YEAR.NUMBER.MINOR_RELEASE > I strongly disagree about the full year indication in front ;) and bring up my older idea of the scheme to be s.yy.ww.tt, that is : s - series, as it is now (freedom to Linus to declare a whole 'new generation' ;) if he wanted ) 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. It is: - most similar to the scheme used so far, - informative : the ww and tt numbers are the week numbers of when the actual release HAPPENED, not when it is predicted. - easy to put some automation into it (git release HEAD now ) could branch the current and rename it accordingly (not that I know how to do it, just imagination) - (mod) in case there are more than one release in a week, letters could be used (e.g. 2.08.44[a..z]) in as many count as needed (2.08.45deadbeef.50sodead )(or put the git commit indication there ?) - in case the stable releases go forth into next year or over, the stable team puts additional .yy.ww instead of their own .tt (like 2.08.45.09.05) (yes I know it is long) - the -rc releases go as usual beginning with latest mainline release (2.08.45-rcX, X being a number as it is now) - dubbing behavior of silicon manufacturers who print the actual week number of production onto their chips - imagine looking at a chip and quick glancing at the kernel version number and _knowing_ it should be OK ;) My £0.02 ;) > > Any thoughts? > > Let the bike-shedding begin! > > thanks, > > greg k-h > Lukasz -- 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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