Re: I vote for incrimenting the version number to 3.0.0, Re:

Ed Yung (yunged@ms.com)
Thu, 31 Dec 1998 10:15:54 -0500

At this time I don't believe a change in numbers should make a difference
now because everyone is already looking foward to 2.2 besides version
number shouldn't really matter when it comes to OSes. . . Figure this
even Windows 3.0->3.1->3.11 - and each of those had some significant amount
of changes between the versions so even though 2.2 has improvements and
changes over 2.0 it doesn't warrant a version change to 3.0. . . Besides
the main thought to .0 releases are that .0 releases are buggy versions not
stable. So 2.2 is much more marketable than you think.
Ed

At 07:56 PM 12/30/1998 -0500, Anthony Barbachan wrote:
>Have it more sellable is just a nice side effect, my main argument is that
>the amount of changes and additions to the kernel justifies its version
>being incrimented to 3.0.0. A .2 upgrade usually denotes a minor upgrade.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gavin M. Roy <gavinroy@nextpath.com>
>To: ralf@uni-koblenz.de <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>; Anthony Barbachan
><barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com>; Kernel Mailing List
><linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
>Date: Wednesday, December 30, 1998 4:18 AM
>Subject: Re: I vote for incrimenting the version number to 3.0.0, Re:
>Linux-2.2.0 (pre1)
>
>
>>Not to mention usually, and I believe in the case of Linux, major
>versioning
>>is layed out ahead of time, with certain goals in mind. i.e. the 2.2
>>kernels have a certain goal-set, the 3.0 kernels have a certain goal set.
>>Making the versioning "sound" more impressive isn't the goal here. The
>goal
>>is to create an organized, stable OS kernel. Than means making a roadmap
>>and sticking to it.
>>
>>My 2 cents, anyway (c:
>>
>>Gavin
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>
>>To: Anthony Barbachan <barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com>; Kernel Mailing List
>><linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
>>Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 1998 10:34 AM
>>Subject: Re: I vote for incrimenting the version number to 3.0.0, Re:
>>Linux-2.2.0 (pre1)
>>
>>
>>>On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 10:07:50PM -0500, Anthony Barbachan wrote:
>>>
>>>> With all the changes in the upcomming kernel, as well as the time
>>invested
>>>> in its development, it seams to me that perhaps we should release it as
>>>> 3.0.0. 2.2 makes it sound like an incrimental release, not much
>>different
>>>> than 2.0.x. Besides which 3.0.0 sounds much more sellable to future
>>>> potential customers/users who are used to MS's (as well as others') bad
>>>> habit of taking three versions to get thing right.
>>>
>>>Number cosmetics ...
>>>
>>> Ralf
>>>
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