On 16-07-08 08:55, Rafael C. de Almeida wrote:
(and please don't drop CCs on linux-kernel. I for example in this case
would like the X as user thing to be noticed as I believe it's a nice
point as an "externally significant" thing)
I don't. I hate bores.
More importantly though, that's really the kind of thing where you can
argue about how life should and/or could be until you're blue in the
face but if it isn't, it doesn't actually matter any. People intimately
involved with a project like Linux (say, subscribers to this list)
definitely look quite different at it than others and that's nothing
bad. Communicating information to these people through shortcuts like
version numbers isn't necesarily anything to avoid.
There ARE features in the pipeline you could plan for that would warrant
a version jump. I'd for example consider being able to run X not as root
a very worthy goal for a version jump (be it 2.8 or 3.0). That's also a
change in the area where those that are NOT intimately involved yet
interested in a more than professional way are -- on the desktop.
Really. I'd like it much better if the big cool feature of the all new
Linux kernel would be running X as user, rather than when the big cool
feature of X running as a user would require a version of Linux newer
than the february 2010 release.
If you get what I mean. Do trust me, you'll have time and opportunity
enough in your lifetime to be boringly professional.
Rene.
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