Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262668AbUJ0TcE (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:32:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262577AbUJ0T33 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:29:29 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:15514 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262591AbUJ0T0k (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:26:40 -0400 Message-ID: <417FF5C8.9010701@tmr.com> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:23:52 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Barry K. Nathan" CC: Linus Torvalds , Nick Piggin , William Lee Irwin III , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The naming wars continue... References: <417EC260.1010401@tmr.com><417EC260.1010401@tmr.com> <20041027033212.GC9375@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20041027033212.GC9375@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1794 Lines: 44 Barry K. Nathan wrote: > 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: 2.6.10.1 suggests nothing, that convention was used ONCE in the 2.6 series. I liked the -pre convention as it was, but Linus has dropped that in spite of several hundred instances of its use. From that I conclude that if Linus like 2.6.10.1 he will use it, and if not we will have -rc releases which aren't release candidates. His call. I personally think it will slow development because some people tested the -rc releases harder, but that's not decided by vote. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/