Messages in this thread |  | | | From | el es <> | | Subject | Kernel version : what about s.yy.ww.tt scheme ? | | Date | Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:51:19 +0000 (UTC) |
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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 ?
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