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9 years and 70 releases is referring to ZoL. I use ZFS. I am mocking open source developers' terror of calling something a 1.0 release. At the same time they

9 years and 70 releases is referring to ZoL. I use ZFS. I am mocking open source developers' terror of calling something a 1.0 release. At the same time they say release numbers aren't an indication of quality their actions tell us that release numbers matter a lot and that's why they are scared of calling something a 1.0 release.

laumars 8y ago
> 9 years and 70 releases is referring to ZoL. Wow time flies! Feels like only yesterday I was reading about the inception of that project.
jordanbeiber 8y ago
The idea I guess is that many project historically use the power of the decimals to indicate major from minor versions. That’s it. This ”scared” and ”terror” talk is a bit unnecessary as the only one interested in numbers in a version no. is someone selling it. Linus is mocking this very fact by arbitrarily raising the kernel version.
vetinari 8y ago
> why they are scared of calling something a 1.0 release. Given that ZoL doesn't support reflink (ficlone/ficlonerange; see also https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/405 https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/405), and that ZFS is a CoW filesystem, that's pretty good reason not to have 1.0 release. In other words, there is no way no use a key feauture, without enabling deduplication (that's exactly that feature, that requires heaps of RAM).