Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 04 Nov 2013 18:00:51 +0100 | From | Alexander Holler <> | Subject | Re: Linux 3.12 released .. and no merge window yet .. and 4.0 plans? |
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Am 04.11.2013 01:10, schrieb Linus Torvalds:
(...) > Onto a totally different topic: we're getting to release numbers where > I have to take off my socks to count that high again. I'm ok with > 3.<low teens>, but I don't want us to get to the kinds of crazy > numbers we had in the 2.x series, so at some point we're going to cut > over from 3.x to 4.x, just to keep the numbers small and easy to > remember. We're not there yet, but I would actually prefer to not go > into the twenties, so I can see it happening in a year or so, and > we'll have 4.0 follow 3.19 or something like that. > > Now, it's just a number (since we've long since given up on > feature-related releases), and it's at least a year away, so why do I > even mention it at all? (...) > Comments?
You could go towards the lovely number Pi (π):
3.12 3.13 3.14 3.141 3.1415 3.14159 3.141592 3.1415926 (...) 4.0
That would
- not be crazy numbers, - make some math loving people happy, - make people remembering that number, - be a test for broken version number parsers, - not as boring as usual version numbers, - be in good tradition (e.g. TeX), - make some maintainers hate me for that suggestion, ;) - ...
Regards,
Alexander Holler
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