Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Sat Oct 18 2008 - 17:44:19 EST



On Thursday 2008-10-16 03:34, david@xxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> On 16.10.2008 02:25, Greg KH wrote:
>>
>> Hence people that write a lot of articles about things that happen in linux
>> land (like LWN.net or I do) would be forced to write sentences like "[...]the
>> kernel that will become 2008.3 or 2009.0 will have feature foo that works
>> like this[...]". That will get really confusing if you read those articles
>> half a year later -- especially if that kernel became 2008.3 in the end,
>> because foo in 2009.0 might already look quite different again...
>
> pick a name when the merge window opens

Hell no, we're not a distro.
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