Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2005-03-02 at 22:21, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>  - 2.6.<odd>: still a stable kernel, but accept bigger changes leading up 
>    to it (timeframe: a month or two).
>  - 2.<odd>.x: aim for big changes that may destabilize the kernel for 
>    several releases (timeframe: a year or two)
>  - <odd>.x.x: Linus went crazy, broke absolutely _everything_, and rewrote
>    the kernel to be a microkernel using a special message-passing version 
>    of Visual Basic. (timeframe: "we expect that he will be released from 
>    the mental institution in a decade or two").

We still need 2.6.x.y updates on a more official footing and with more
than one person as the "2.6.x.y" maintainer. I think that is actually
more important.

The 2.6.<odd> thing is essentially irrelevant. You are just relabelling
pre
and rc to even and odd. It won't fool anyone into testing it more....

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