Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755951AbYGSUui (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:50:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753732AbYGSUua (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:50:30 -0400 Received: from vapor.isi.edu ([128.9.64.64]:38236 "EHLO vapor.isi.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753532AbYGSUu3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:50:29 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:49:33 -0700 From: Craig Milo Rogers To: Rene Herman Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Linus Torvalds , Stoyan Gaydarov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , gorcunov@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7? Message-ID: <20080719204933.GE18350@isi.edu> References: <6d291e080807141910m573b29b2t753ea7c4db09902d@mail.gmail.com> <6d291e080807141931g3080c94cic94f503c1a18523b@mail.gmail.com> <20080717195625.GC6777@isi.edu> <20080719080002.GA11272@isi.edu> <4881AB31.7010400@keyaccess.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4881AB31.7010400@keyaccess.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-ISI-4-43-8-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: rogers@jib.isi.edu Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 829 Lines: 18 On 08.07.19, Rene Herman wrote: > Really, find me a single Linux developer who wouldn't try just a little bit > harder for a big 3.0 release. This is still a community, not yet a boring > office schedule... I'm afraid that the allure of 3.0 would mean that everyone would want to get their shiny new subsystem/scheduler rewrite/bootstrap file format change/whatever incorporated into it, resulting in a protracted integration period and an unstable system. According to this line of thought, Linus should simply announce version 3.0 with no forewarning... Craig Milo Rogers -- 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/