Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 3.0-rc1 | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Tue, 31 May 2011 15:59:38 +1000 |
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On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 18:30 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Now, my alpha-maleness sadly does not actually extend to all the > scripts and Makefile rules, so the kernel is fighting back, and is > calling itself 3.0.0-rc1. We'll have the usual 6-7 weeks to wrestle it > into submission, and get scripts etc cleaned up, and the final release > should be just "3.0". The -stable team can use the third number for > their versioning.
So a bit of bike shedding :-)
Why don't we just keep the 3 digits ? You release 3.x.0 and Greg increments the last one ?
That means existing tools don't break, and number of digits doesn't change all the time anymore, less likely to get wrong...
Cheers, Ben.
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