Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756023AbYGSU4g (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:56:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754053AbYGSU43 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:56:29 -0400 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:56661 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753993AbYGSU43 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:56:29 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:56:33 -0700 (PDT) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard To: Craig Milo Rogers cc: Rene Herman , 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? In-Reply-To: <20080719204933.GE18350@isi.edu> Message-ID: References: <6d291e080807141910m573b29b2t753ea7c4db09902d@mail.gmail.com> <6d291e080807141931g3080c94cic94f503c1a18523b@mail.gmail.com> <20080717195625.GC6777@isi.edu> <20080719080002.GA11272@isi.edu> <4881AB31.7010400@keyaccess.nl> <20080719204933.GE18350@isi.edu> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1068 Lines: 24 On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Craig Milo Rogers wrote: > 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... not to mention that people would avoid it becouse it would be a .0 release and therefor perceived as being unstable (and for the reasons that Craig lists, they would probably be right) David Lang -- 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/