netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/5] batman-adv: Start new development cycle

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Message-ID: <Y9faTA0rNSXg/sLD@nanopsycho>
Date:   Mon, 30 Jan 2023 15:55:08 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Simon Wunderlich <sw@...onwunderlich.de>
Cc:     kuba@...nel.org, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] batman-adv: Start new development cycle

Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 11:21:29AM CET, sw@...onwunderlich.de wrote:
>This version will contain all the (major or even only minor) changes for
>Linux 6.3.
>
>The version number isn't a semantic version number with major and minor
>information. It is just encoding the year of the expected publishing as
>Linux -rc1 and the number of published versions this year (starting at 0).

I wonder, what is this versioning good for?