Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 May 2011 19:53:56 -0400 | From | Phil Turmel <> | Subject | Re: (Short?) merge window reminder |
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Hi Linus,
On 05/23/2011 04:33 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: >> >> I really hope there's also a voice that tells you to wait until .42 before >> cutting 3.0.0! :-) > > So I'm toying with 3.0 (and in that case, it really would be "3.0", > not "3.0.0" - the stable team would get the third digit rather than > the fourth one.
A few months ago, I briefly considered suggesting that the demise of the BKL would be a suitable milestone for the numbering shakeup.
But I am a mere mortal lurker, and I remember past flame-fests this topic spawned. So I chickened out.
As a small-scale linux evangelist, I would sure like to skip the explanation of the version numbers.
Phil
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