Date based [LWN.net]

Date based

Posted May 24, 2011 5:57 UTC (Tue) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
In reply to: Date based by kragil
Parent article: 2.8.0?

> While I think that most reasonable people would prefer a date based versioning scheme

I would have thought so to, but at the kernel summit when Linus ran his "straw poll" (https://lwn.net/Articles/413061/) he didn't even ask for votes for that option as he assumed almost no-one would want it (and based on the votes he got for the other options, there is a fair chance he was right).

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Date based

Posted May 24, 2011 6:19 UTC (Tue) by kragil (guest, #34373) [Link] (1 responses)

Hmm, that LWN article just states that kernel devs were against changing from 2.6 to something else. The way I read it it doesn't say that date based was less popular than anything else (besides staying with the current scheme)

Date based

Posted May 24, 2011 6:35 UTC (Tue) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link]

The article glosses over the boring details.

The way I remember it, there where 3 options:
A - no change
B - next version 3.0
C - change to date format.

Vote went:
A - 42
B - 33
C - let's not bother, no-one wants that.