Re: (Short?) merge window reminder

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:36 AM, H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com 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