On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Craig Milo Rogers wrote:

quoted text
> 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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