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    SubjectRe: (Short?) merge window reminder
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    2011/5/24 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>:
    > On Tuesday 2011-05-24 01:33, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    >
    >>Another advantage of switching numbering models (ie 3.0 instead of
    >>2.8.x) would be that it would also make the "odd numbers are also
    >>numbers" transition much more natural.
    >>
    >>Because of our historical even/odd model, I wouldn't do a 2.7.x -
    >>there's just too much history of 2.1, 2.3, 2.5 being development
    >>trees.
    >
    > .oO(Though once 2.{7 or more, odd} trickle into the distros, it would
    > become pretty much apparent that they are not devel.)
    >
    >>And then in another few years (probably before getting close to 3.40,
    >>so I'm not going to make a big deal of 3 = "third decade"), I'd just
    >>do 4.0 etc.
    >
    > While 2.6 has certainly worn out, already thinking of a 4.0 is highly
    > reminiscient of the version number arms race Firefox and ChromeBrowser
    > are doing currently.
    >
    >>Because all our releases are supposed to be stable releases these
    >>days, and if we get rid of one level of numbering, I feel perfectly
    >>fine with getting rid of the even/odd history too.
    >
    > If I remember past-time discussions right, ELF was the contributing
    > factor to bump the major number to 2.0 back then; ever since 2.0, no
    > similarly breakthrough-ing event has occurred.

    What then about BKL removal? Nice place to celebrate with version jump
    and heaving some beers.

    -Jacek


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