[diminish]

Newer projects have quick version bumps after the success of Chrome's accelerated versioning approach.

But for software deeper in solutions, fast version changes appear confusing. I like Apache, nginx with very small bumps. Most newer JS frameworks live fast and die quick. It's also very confusing for developers to decide to jump to newer versions.

Expecting 11.20 version around 2037.

[zanny]

The worst part is its arbitrary. I don't get why Linus is so bent on keeping a three step version number when the first digit has been meaningless since 1996 (or maybe 2011 if you want to be pedantic and call the version change from 2.6.x to 3.x a major revision). For the largest free software project in the world it sure doesn't do much to advertise good practices when informing your user of relative newness of kernels.

[mricon]

Version 12.0 will be out shortly after, around 1970.