Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751521AbYJRVoR (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:44:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751135AbYJRVoJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:44:09 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:57853 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751127AbYJRVoI (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:44:08 -0400 Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:44:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Jan Engelhardt To: david@lang.hm cc: Thorsten Leemhuis , Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20081016002509.GA25868@kroah.com> <48F6E6EF.8020701@ct.heise.de> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LNX 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 921 Lines: 20 On Thursday 2008-10-16 03:34, david@lang.hm wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> On 16.10.2008 02:25, Greg KH wrote: >> >> Hence people that write a lot of articles about things that happen in linux >> land (like LWN.net or I do) would be forced to write sentences like "[...]the >> kernel that will become 2008.3 or 2009.0 will have feature foo that works >> like this[...]". That will get really confusing if you read those articles >> half a year later -- especially if that kernel became 2008.3 in the end, >> because foo in 2009.0 might already look quite different again... > > pick a name when the merge window opens Hell no, we're not a distro. -- 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/