An impassioned plea on version numbers

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Wed Sep 27 13:40:03 UTC 2017


On 22/09/17 19:04, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> I propose that versions should simply increase incrementally.
>  March 2018  - v10
>  September 2018 - v11
>  March 2019 - v12
>  September 2019 - v13

I'd prefer 18r1, 18r2, 19r1, etc.  18.1 is OK, but too much like a
"conventional" version number.

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Andrew Haley
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