Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?

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To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...>
Cc: Craig Milo Rogers <rogers@...>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Stoyan Gaydarov <stoyboyker@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Alan Cox <alan@...>, <gorcunov@...>, <akpm@...>, <mingo@...>
Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 10:53 am

On Sunday 20 July 2008, Rene Herman wrote:

I suggest that major and minor versions follow some milestones (as suggested 
to a message that I cannot reply directly). For example:

Starting from 'today', mark all open bugs and change version to 2.7 when all 
those bugs are closed. Then mark the open bugs of that time and change to 2.8 
when those bugs are fixed. Repeat as needed.

Set a 'target'/goal and change version to 3.0 whenever worldwide linux 
server/desktop percentage reaches XX%. (Of course this may happen before 
changing to 2.7 but this is not a bad thing (tm)). Then set another target 
(that may not be related to linux adoption) etc, etc...

This will keep the current versioning scheme, set some common goals for all 
developers, add more meaning into trying to fix bugs and prevent the world
from experiencing large linux version numbers.

As a side-effect, setting targets like those may make the whole community 
cooperate even more/better by having common long-term goals.

...

p.s You could also keep the X.Y.Z notation and change the major version
number whenever the way of versioning changes (and the current one is
actually version 2) :P
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From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Stoyan Gaydarov, (Mon Jul 14, 10:10 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Jul 14, 10:22 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Alan Cox, (Tue Jul 15, 8:38 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Jul 15, 2:04 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rene Herman, (Wed Jul 16, 12:22 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Peter T. Breuer, (Wed Jul 16, 5:34 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rafael C. de Almeida, (Wed Jul 16, 2:55 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rene Herman, (Wed Jul 16, 3:30 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rene Herman, (Wed Jul 16, 3:17 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Cyrill Gorcunov, (Tue Jul 15, 10:24 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Tobias Brox, (Tue Jul 15, 12:36 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Byron Stanoszek, (Tue Jul 15, 10:07 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Lennart Sorensen, (Wed Jul 16, 5:14 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Alex Chiang, (Wed Jul 16, 8:03 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Lennart Sorensen, (Thu Jul 17, 8:38 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Alex Chiang, (Thu Jul 17, 4:02 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Andi Kleen, (Tue Jul 15, 6:10 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Lennart Sorensen, (Wed Jul 16, 5:11 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Jul 15, 11:20 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Jul 15, 7:31 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Stoyan Gaydarov, (Mon Jul 14, 10:31 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Jul 14, 10:47 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Jul 15, 4:43 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Adrian Bunk, (Thu Jul 17, 6:16 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Jan Engelhardt, (Wed Jul 16, 3:53 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rene Herman, (Wed Jul 16, 3:57 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Charles grey wolf Banas, (Tue Jul 15, 2:06 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Kasper Sandberg, (Tue Jul 15, 8:41 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Alberto Gonzalez, (Tue Jul 15, 9:18 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Bernd Petrovitsch, (Tue Jul 15, 4:29 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Jul 15, 3:49 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Jan Engelhardt, (Thu Jul 17, 1:25 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Craig Milo Rogers, (Thu Jul 17, 3:56 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Jan Engelhardt, (Thu Jul 17, 4:21 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Craig Milo Rogers, (Sat Jul 19, 4:00 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Peter T. Breuer, (Sat Jul 19, 3:30 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Craig Milo Rogers, (Sat Jul 19, 5:16 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Peter T. Breuer, (Sat Jul 19, 7:10 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rene Herman, (Sat Jul 19, 4:52 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Craig Milo Rogers, (Sat Jul 19, 4:49 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rene Herman, (Sun Jul 20, 4:34 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Stefanos Harhalakis, (Sun Jul 20, 10:53 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, , (Sat Jul 19, 4:56 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Jan Engelhardt, (Sat Jul 19, 5:56 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, , (Mon Jul 14, 11:55 pm)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Willy Tarreau, (Tue Jul 15, 1:31 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Stoyan Gaydarov, (Tue Jul 15, 3:23 am)
Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?, Rafael C. de Almeida, (Tue Jul 15, 2:40 am)