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    SubjectRe: (Short?) merge window reminder
    On 05/26/2011 01:21 AM, Tony Luck wrote:
    > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> wrote:
    >> So if you combine all the above:
    >>
    >> D. Y. N
    >> D - Is the decade since birth (1991 not 1990)
    >> Y - is the year in the decade so you have 3.1.x, 3.2.x, .. 3.10.x, 4.1.X and so on
    >> Nice incremental number.
    >> N - The Linus release of this Year. So this 3rd one goes up to 4 most probably.
    >>
    >> Linus always likes, and feels very poetic about the Christmas version release.
    >> He hates it when once it slipped into the next year. So now he gets to increment
    >> the second digit as a bonus.
    >>
    >> The 2nd digit gets to start on a *one*, never zero and goes up to *10*, to symbolize
    >> the 1991 birth. And we never have .zero quality, right?
    >>
    >> The first Digit gets incremented on decade from 1991 so on 2011 and not 2010
    >
    > This is clearly the best suggestion so far - small numbers, somewhat
    > date related (but without stuffing a "2011." on the front). No ".0"
    > releases, ever.
    >
    > But best of all it defines now when we will switch to 4.x.y and 5.x.y
    > so we don't have to keep having this discussion whenever someone thinks
    > that the numbers are getting "too big" (well perhaps when we get to the
    > tenth decade or so :-)
    >
    > So the only thing left to argue is whether the upcoming release should
    > be numbered "3.1.1" as the first release in the first year of the 3rd
    > decade ... or whether we should count 2.6.37 .. 2.6.39 as the first
    > three releases this year and thus we ought to start with "3.1.4" (so we
    > start with "pi"!).
    >

    Yes, Yes I like this a lot. I love pi, thanks.

    Boaz
    > Linus: If you go with this, you should let Boaz set the new "NAME"
    > as a prize for such an inspired solution.
    >
    > -Tony



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