[CopperWing]

They already discussed about this few years ago, but they decided against a date-based versioning because that would have meant breaking a lot of scripts and programs doing kernel detection assuming the old scheme. [1]

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/23/358

[TazeTSchnitzel]

Maybe just make the major be (year - 2000) and have the minors increment as normal?