Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757497AbYGOIdW (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:33:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754710AbYGOIdH (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:33:07 -0400 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:6423 "EHLO ns.firmix.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756377AbYGOIdE (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:33:04 -0400 Subject: Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7? From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Stoyan Gaydarov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , gorcunov@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu In-Reply-To: References: <6d291e080807141910m573b29b2t753ea7c4db09902d@mail.gmail.com> <6d291e080807141931g3080c94cic94f503c1a18523b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Firmix Software GmbH Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:29:30 +0200 Message-Id: <1216110570.12102.45.camel@spike.firmix.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-8.el5_2.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Firmix-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on ns.firmix.at X-Firmix-Spam-Score: -2.342 () AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Firmix-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.342 required=5 X-Spam-Score: -2.342 () AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Firmix-Envelope-From: X-Firmix-Envelope-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1795 Lines: 43 On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 19:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Stoyan Gaydarov wrote: > > > For example, I don't see any individual feature that would merit a jump > > > from 2.x to 3.x or even from 2.6.x to 2.8.x. So maybe those version jumps > > > should be done by a time-based model too - matching how we actually do > > > releases anyway. > > > > Does it have to be even numbers only? > > No. But the even/odd thing is still so fresh in peoples memory (despite us > not having used it for years), and I think some projects aped us on it, so > if I didn't change the numbering setup, but just wanted to reset the minor > number, I'd probably jump from 2.6 to 2.8 just for historical reasons. ACK. "Normal" users (and especially average journalists where most "normal" users get their knowledge from) tend to know of "odd Linux kernel version are development" (and will probably report it wrongly that way if "2.7 is released"). Perhaps they learn the new model if 2.7 will never have existed and people asked about. [...] > Anyway, I have to say that I personally don't have any hugely strong > opinions on the numbering. I suspect others do, though, and I'm almost > certain that this is an absolutely _perfect_ "bikeshed-painting" subject ACK, probably the best. But others are surely better in proposing beautiful colors. [....] Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- 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/