From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail6.bemta8.messagelabs.com (mail6.bemta8.messagelabs.com [216.82.243.55]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 530426B0025 for ; Mon, 23 May 2011 16:34:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com (mail-ew0-f41.google.com [209.85.215.41]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id p4NKYALu013029 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL) for ; Mon, 23 May 2011 13:34:11 -0700 Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so2847794ewy.14 for ; Mon, 23 May 2011 13:34:08 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> References: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 13:33:48 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, DRI , linux-fsdevel , linux-mm , Andrew Morton , Greg KH On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > I really hope there's also a voice that tells you to wait until .42 before > cutting 3.0.0! :-) So I'm toying with 3.0 (and in that case, it really would be "3.0", not "3.0.0" - the stable team would get the third digit rather than the fourth one. But no, it wouldn't be for 42. Despite THHGTTG, I think "40" is a fairly nice round number. There's also the timing issue - since we no longer do version numbers based on features, but based on time, just saying "we're about to start the third decade" works as well as any other excuse. But we'll see. Linus -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org