Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:14:26 +0200 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: Kernel version : what about s.yy.ww.tt scheme ? |
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:48:37AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Thursday 2008-07-17 10:51, el es wrote: > > >Hello, > >inspired by the bikeshed painting contest, I got the following idea : > > > >The scheme to be s.yy.ww.tt, that is : > > > >s - series, as it is now (freedom to Linus to bump it to 3 when BKL is removed > >for example ;) ) > >yy - two (in a hundred years, three) digits of the year > >Now the interesting part begins which is > >ww - the number of the week of the release. This will be between 1 and 52 (53) > >tt - the number of the week of stable release. As above. > > Interesting idea. > > >Take a hypotetical new-scheme 2.8.30 release (roughly the current > >2.6.26, didn't count these weeks). Linus starts to accumulate > >patches for 2.8.30-rcX as usual, and when he is ready to release, > >puts the release week number instead of 30 - let's assume it is a > >2.8.40 then, more or less. By the time, the stable team produces > >2.8.30.[32,34,36,38,40 and so on]. If the weeks leap into the next > >year, stable team puts e.g. 2.8.30.9.01 (yy.ww). > > -stable usually overlaps with master. But I don't like version > numbers long as binutils and "2.8.30.9.01" have.
also, causes trouble when stable releases cross a year boundary, or when there are several ones in a week. The stable release should only be a counter, not a date.
Willy
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