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It would make more sense to have 15.01, i.e. YY.MM. Works perfectly fine for ubuntu and would likely not break the numbering scheme..
As long as we don't expect Linux to exist for another 85 years ;)
I never understand why linux distributions download updates so often. I'd prefer something monthly at the most. I can't believe there are so many critical security update that much often...
While this is not even kernel related, I'd like it to coincide with significant adoption of Wayland. It's more of a distro-level thing, but it is a major advance in the Linux world. So hold off on 4.0 until some desktops and distros are ready for that as a default.
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Linux people have a natural, inbuilt fear, of everything BSD related. Date based releases are evil! That's slightly a joke, but I think in reality the development model that Linus and the other maintainers have created are feature based more than timeline based. As a developer I would enjoy a date based release schedule. I don't follow HEAD closely anymore but it would be easier to keep up the general view I try to k…
Which BSD is doing date based releases?
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Semver isn't the one and only way of versioning stuff. Heck, it's a pretty ridiculous model for projects that do releases based on time rather than features...
Sure, my point was not that semver is the best, my point was that version numbers aren't a product name, they should be scientific. Whether it's semver or date-based, as long as it obeys rules so that people using your product can easily distinguish versions.
That's your opinion. It seems there's a lot of people in the software industry with a different opinion.
I'm not saying it isn't a good thing when version numbers are meaningful. But that's not always the case and even when it's the case, you'd better check what it means for a particular project. There's no generic "scientific" rule about version numbers.
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Linux people have a natural, inbuilt fear, of everything BSD related. Date based releases are evil! That's slightly a joke, but I think in reality the development model that Linus and the other maintainers have created are feature based more than timeline based. As a developer I would enjoy a date based release schedule. I don't follow HEAD closely anymore but it would be easier to keep up the general view I try to k…
I've seen Linus loose it with devs in the past for breaking backwards compatibility with kernel updates; I'd suggest this also has something to do with it -possibly more so than an inbuilt fear of BSD [1]. I'm failing to find an explanation of how the RHEL numbering scheme is date based -please could you expand? [1] As a long term linux user, I have both fear and bafflement over BSD device naming and the lack of gnu…
Note: if you click on the total number of votes above the poll, you can see the results without logging in or voting. Current results with 8,509 votes. 43% (3,687) I like big versions, and I cannot lie 57% (4,822) v4.0, 'cause I get confused easily
43% (4,627) I like big versions, and I cannot lie
57% (6,029) v4.0, 'cause I get confused easily