Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:56:33 -0700 (PDT) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7? |
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On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Craig Milo Rogers wrote:
> 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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