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

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0807191354240.6370@asgard>
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
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