Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:56:41 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7? |
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On Saturday 2008-07-19 22:56, david@lang.hm wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Craig Milo Rogers wrote: >> On 08.07.19, Rene Herman wrote: >> >>> Really, find me a single Linux developer who wouldn't try just a >>> little bit harder for a big 3.0 release. This is still a >>> community, not yet a boring office schedule... >> >> I'm afraid that the allure of 3.0 would mean that everyone >> would want to get their shiny new subsystem/scheduler >> rewrite/bootstrap file format change/whatever incorporated into it
Which is why it should not be announced early, but happen spontaenously at Linus's discretion, right after the last -rc.
>> it, resulting in a protracted integration period and an unstable >> system. According to this line of thought, Linus should simply >> announce version 3.0 with no forewarning... > > not to mention that people would avoid it becouse it would be a .0 > release and therefor perceived as being unstable (and for the > reasons that Craig lists, they would probably be right)
Maybe we should also start skipping on numbers like 2.x.4, 2.x.13, and 2.6.66. "What's in a number?" Maybe we should only ever release 2.<odd>.0 to show that there is nothing bad about being an <odd> or a .0 release.
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