Re: (Short?) merge window reminder

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Tuesday 2011-05-24 14:30, Jacek Luczak wrote:

>2011/5/24 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Tuesday 2011-05-24 01:33, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>>>Another advantage of switching numbering models (ie 3.0 instead of
>>>2.8.x) would be that it would also make the "odd numbers are also
>>>numbers" transition much more natural.
>>>
>>>Because of our historical even/odd model, I wouldn't do a 2.7.x -
>>>there's just too much history of 2.1, 2.3, 2.5 being development
>>>trees.
>>
>> .oO(Though once 2.{7 or more, odd} trickle into the distros, it would
>> become pretty much apparent that they are not devel.)
>>
>>>And then in another few years (probably before getting close to 3.40,
>>>so I'm not going to make a big deal of 3 = "third decade"), I'd just
>>>do 4.0 etc.
>>
>> While 2.6 has certainly worn out, already thinking of a 4.0 is highly
>> reminiscient of the version number arms race Firefox and ChromeBrowser
>> are doing currently.
>>
>>>Because all our releases are supposed to be stable releases these
>>>days, and if we get rid of one level of numbering, I feel perfectly
>>>fine with getting rid of the even/odd history too.
>>
>> If I remember past-time discussions right, ELF was the contributing
>> factor to bump the major number to 2.0 back then; ever since 2.0, no
>> similarly breakthrough-ing event has occurred.
>
>What then about BKL removal? Nice place to celebrate with version jump
>and heaving some beers.

The BKL going away was not a change that would require new 
userspace programs.
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