Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760839AbYGQWF0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:05:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754586AbYGQWFO (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:05:14 -0400 Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.27]:49251 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754475AbYGQWFM (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:05:12 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :sender; b=qYmyKyTZujegdZwCSHt5lr7SK3JqdX2O+UFxqo7Gd4WwSO5kdeQf4lCLqtCZVA1LsN AnMPqtxuTTbTIQVV/VN0Gl58fLAITie0W2ZdUmhXMvSm5KxZBiJ/RtQSEH5xmMa4PSxz oiGv4BNiObTDzUZhfZbGNR7JBo4WUYtBp5B/M= Message-ID: <487FC213.9030604@altrux.me.uk> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:05:07 +0100 From: Alastair Stevens Organization: Gloucester UK User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080505) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7? X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1134 Lines: 39 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Forgive me if I missed it, but I've not seen any suggestions along the lines of this: how about just dropping the now-meaningless '.6' from the version string and retaining the rest. In other words: 2.27 2.27.1 ... 2.28 2.28.1 2.28.2 That way you continue the series in a meaningful way, whilst reverting to a neater 3-level numbering scheme again. Perhaps you could make 2.[6.]30 the switchover point.... Cheers AL - -- ==================================================================== ALASTAIR STEVENS * Web - www.altrux.me.uk * Blog - www.altrux.me.uk/blog.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIf8ITxW64B3bJb+wRAlxMAJ0cRiRBeN2MVBxauLudZDBQ9mEjEACfVx0C kNjXCycMZ+rxLvoMIVh0EAY= =04yz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/