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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:56:33 -0700 (PDT) From: david@...g.hm To: Craig Milo Rogers <rogers@....EDU> cc: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Stoyan Gaydarov <stoyboyker@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, gorcunov@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu Subject: Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7? On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Craig Milo Rogers wrote: > On 08.07.19, Rene Herman wrote: >> Really, find me a single Linux developer who wouldn't try just a little bit >> harder for a big 3.0 release. This is still a community, not yet a boring >> office schedule... > > I'm afraid that the allure of 3.0 would mean that everyone > would want to get their shiny new subsystem/scheduler > rewrite/bootstrap file format change/whatever incorporated into it, > resulting in a protracted integration period and an unstable system. > According to this line of thought, Linus should simply announce > version 3.0 with no forewarning... not to mention that people would avoid it becouse it would be a .0 release and therefor perceived as being unstable (and for the reasons that Craig lists, they would probably be right) David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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