Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:14:42 +0200 | From | Kristoffer Ericson <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change |
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Please don't use time indications inside kernel versions, it just gets confusing (even more so if you use yy mm dd).
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:05:32 +0000 (UTC) el es <el_es_cr@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> el es <el_es_cr <at> yahoo.co.uk> writes: > > > > > H. Peter Anvin <hpa <at> zytor.com> writes: > > > > > > > > el es wrote: > > [snip] > > > > - informative : the ww and tt numbers are the week numbers of when the > > > > actual release HAPPENED, not when it is predicted. > > > > Which really sucks for dealing with future releases. > > > > > > > Why ? > > What do you mean by 'future releases' ? > > Oh, I just read your suggestion to move on with 3, 4 and so on. To keep it > simple. > > How about adopting your scheme (simple counter) with mine (yy.ww.tt) ? > > Speaking on my own, I think that some indication of WHEN the release actually > happened, encoded in the version number, IS desirable. I'm not a developer (my > field is far, far away) but personally I find the suggestions to put full year > figure in front, grossly disturbing everything we accustomed to ;) > > OR. > If in my idea, we drop the .tt bit, hence, we declare, that the stable team just > continues the work on the released version, like > > - 2.08.41 is the currently released 2.6.27, > - developers continue on 2.08.41-rcX, which gets promoted to 3.yy.ww when > released and so on, > - meanwhile the stable team releases 2.08.[42..52], 2.09.[01..52] and so on. > > Being an indication of continuity. > As well as a revolution too ;) > > > > > > > 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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