Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261387AbUJ0Dez (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:34:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261377AbUJ0Dey (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:34:54 -0400 Received: from boggle.pobox.com ([208.58.1.193]:36574 "EHLO boggle.pobox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261626AbUJ0DcS (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:32:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:32:12 -0700 From: "Barry K. Nathan" To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Linus Torvalds , Nick Piggin , William Lee Irwin III , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The naming wars continue... Message-ID: <20041027033212.GC9375@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net> References: <417EC260.1010401@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <417EC260.1010401@tmr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1632 Lines: 41 On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:32:16PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: [snip] > >Which is just another reason why the name itself is not that meaningful. > >It can never carry the kind of information that people seem to _expect_ it > >to carry. > > I wasn't going to reply to this since it's your call and I've had my > say, but since several others have, let me throw out one more idea on > the off chance you like it: > > Stop doing the pre's on the next version! After 2.6.10 comes 2.6.10.1 > etc, which everyone can see are incremental changes to 2.6.10, and when > you really mean it, then put out 2.6.11-rc1. > > Did that strike a nerve? 2.6.10.1, etc. suggests important bug fixes for 2.6.10, *not* prereleases of 2.6.11. But... perhaps (with sufficient warning) the even/odd principle could be applied to the third number. So, this would happen: 2.6.even = release 2.6.even.x = release, with added bug/security fixes 2.6.odd = first (zeroth?) -pre/-rc release 2.6.odd.x = additional -pre/-rc releases A more concrete example: 2.6.11-rc1, 2.6.11-rc2, 2.6.11-rc3, 2.6.11, 2.6.12-rc1, 2.6.12-rc2, 2.6.12 would become: 2.6.11, 2.6.11.1, 2.6.11.2, 2.6.12, 2.6.13, 2.6.13.1, 2.6.14 How does this sound? (It just occurred to me that this might break scripts, but it may be worth discussing anyway.) -Barry K. Nathan - 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/