Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758520AbYGTSOi (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:14:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757815AbYGTSOb (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:14:31 -0400 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:1864 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757621AbYGTSOa (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:14:30 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:14:26 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: el es , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel version : what about s.yy.ww.tt scheme ? Message-ID: <20080720181426.GA29189@1wt.eu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1620 Lines: 40 On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:48:37AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Thursday 2008-07-17 10:51, el es wrote: > > >Hello, > >inspired by the bikeshed painting contest, I got the following idea : > > > >The scheme to be s.yy.ww.tt, that is : > > > >s - series, as it is now (freedom to Linus to bump it to 3 when BKL is removed > >for example ;) ) > >yy - two (in a hundred years, three) digits of the year > >Now the interesting part begins which is > >ww - the number of the week of the release. This will be between 1 and 52 (53) > >tt - the number of the week of stable release. As above. > > Interesting idea. > > >Take a hypotetical new-scheme 2.8.30 release (roughly the current > >2.6.26, didn't count these weeks). Linus starts to accumulate > >patches for 2.8.30-rcX as usual, and when he is ready to release, > >puts the release week number instead of 30 - let's assume it is a > >2.8.40 then, more or less. By the time, the stable team produces > >2.8.30.[32,34,36,38,40 and so on]. If the weeks leap into the next > >year, stable team puts e.g. 2.8.30.9.01 (yy.ww). > > -stable usually overlaps with master. But I don't like version > numbers long as binutils and "2.8.30.9.01" have. also, causes trouble when stable releases cross a year boundary, or when there are several ones in a week. The stable release should only be a counter, not a date. Willy -- 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/