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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:14:42 +0200
From: Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com>
To: el es <el_es_cr@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change
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Please don't use time indications inside kernel versions, it just gets conf=
using
(even more so if you use yy mm dd).


On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:05:32 +0000 (UTC)
el es <el_es_cr@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> el es <el_es_cr <at> yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>=20
> >=20
> > H. Peter Anvin <hpa <at> zytor.com> writes:
> >=20
> > >=20
> > > el es wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > > - informative : the ww and tt numbers are the week numbers of when =
the=20
> > > > actual release HAPPENED, not when it is predicted.
>=20
> > > Which really sucks for dealing with future releases.
> > >=20
> >=20
> > Why ?=20
> > What do you mean by 'future releases' ?=20
>=20
> Oh, I just read your suggestion to move on with 3, 4 and so on. To keep i=
t=20
> simple.
>=20
> How about adopting your scheme (simple counter) with mine (yy.ww.tt) ?
>=20
> Speaking on my own, I think that some indication of WHEN the release actu=
ally
> happened, encoded in the version number, IS desirable. I'm not a develope=
r (my
> field is far, far away) but personally I find the suggestions to put full=
 year
> figure in front, grossly disturbing everything we accustomed to ;)
>=20
> OR.
> If in my idea, we drop the .tt bit, hence, we declare, that the stable te=
am just
> continues the work on the released version, like
>=20
> - 2.08.41 is the currently released 2.6.27,
> - developers continue on 2.08.41-rcX, which gets promoted to 3.yy.ww when=
=20
> released and so on,
> - meanwhile the stable team releases 2.08.[42..52], 2.09.[01..52] and so =
on.=20
>=20
> Being an indication of continuity.
> As well as a revolution too ;)
> > >=20
> >=20
> > Lukasz
> >=20
> >=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
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