Re: On Linux numbering scheme

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

 On 10/21/2010 07:00 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 07:06:23PM -0500, kevin granade wrote:
>
>> Any particular reason not to continue the date-oriented format and
>> have the third number be the numerical representation of the month
>> rather than an incrementing numbering of the releases?  It would still
>> be monotonically increasing, which is the only requirement, right?
> Why do we need to change it, anyway?
>
> Al, fully expecting to be whined at for discouraging potential contributors
> and horribly damaging Linux ecosystem by artificially increasing the entry
> barrier, or something...

I think it should be blue.

    J
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