On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 01:33:48PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Ingo Molnar mingo@elte.hu wrote:
I really hope there's also a voice that tells you to wait until .42 before cutting 3.0.0! :-)
So I'm toying with 3.0 (and in that case, it really would be "3.0", not "3.0.0" - the stable team would get the third digit rather than the fourth one.
I like that, it would make things much easier for me to keep track of stuff.
But no, it wouldn't be for 42. Despite THHGTTG, I think "40" is a fairly nice round number.
There's also the timing issue - since we no longer do version numbers based on features, but based on time, just saying "we're about to start the third decade" works as well as any other excuse.
That sounds reasonable as well.
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