linux-kernel - Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?

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Message-ID: <20080715133801.546338c1@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:38:01 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Stoyan Gaydarov <stoyboyker@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gorcunov@...il.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?

> maybe we could have 2008.7 instead. Or just increment the major version 
> every decade, the middle version every year, and the minor version every 
> time we make a release. Whatever.

Why 2008 ? We have lots of year systems beyond the specific Western one.
Surely "38." as the Unix epoch time...

And .. 2008 sounds so "old Windows numbering"

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