Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755008AbYJPJKO (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:10:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753734AbYJPJKB (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:10:01 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:58782 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753277AbYJPJKA (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:10:00 -0400 Message-ID: <48F704E6.2010409@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:09:58 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: el es CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change References: <20081016002509.GA25868@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 912 Lines: 31 el es wrote: > > the scheme to be s.yy.ww.tt, that is : > > s - series, as it is now (freedom to Linus to declare a whole 'new generation' > > ;) if he wanted ) > > 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. > > It is: > - most similar to the scheme used so far, > - informative : the ww and tt numbers are the week numbers of when the actual > > release HAPPENED, not when it is predicted. > Which really sucks for dealing with future releases. -hpa -- 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/