Re: (Short?) merge window reminder

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue May 24 2011 - 13:41:33 EST


On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:36 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think this whole discussion misses the essence of the new development
> model, which is that we no longer do these kinds of feature-based major
> milestones.

Indeed.

It's not about features. It hasn't been about features for forever.

So a renumbering would be purely about dropping the numbers to
something smaller and more easily recognized. The ABI wouldn't change.
The API wouldn't change. There wouldn't be any big "because we finally
did xyz".

Linus
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