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

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Message-ID: <20080717224041.GM31126@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date:	Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:40:41 -0400
From:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To:	Alastair Stevens <alastair@...rux.me.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:05:07PM +0100, Alastair Stevens wrote:
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> Forgive me if I missed it, but I've not seen any suggestions along the lines
> of this: how about just dropping the now-meaningless '.6' from the version
> string and retaining the rest. In other words:
> 
>    2.27
>    2.27.1
>    ...
>    2.28
>    2.28.1
>    2.28.2
> 
> That way you continue the series in a meaningful way, whilst reverting to a
> neater 3-level numbering scheme again. Perhaps you could make 2.[6.]30 the
> switchover point....

So what makes the 6 meaningless and the 2 meaningful and worth keeping?

It does nothing for Linus's dislike of large numbers either.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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