I don't think there is a policy. In the chat room, the question was posed, "is the next release 3.10 or 4.0" and 4.0 sounded cool.
There are a bunch of 4.0 worhty features too. On February 17, 2022 12:08:46 AM PST, Mikko Rasa <t...@tdb.fi> wrote: >I don't know of Darktable's specific policy with version numbers, but in >the general case version numbers should not be treated as decimal >numbers, but rather as integer sequences. For example the latest Linux >kernel release is 5.16.10, and it's a later version than 5.9.14, because >5 == 5 and then 16 > 9. > >I have seen some software using the decimal number approach, but those >usually have only one dot in the version number. Darktable already has >precedent of more than one dot, like 3.8.1. > >Mikko > >On 17.2.2022 1.33, Matt Maguire wrote: >> It’s basic maths — you want version numbers to be strictly monotonously >> increasing: >> 3.10 = 3.1 < 3.8 < 4.0 >> >> ----------------- >> MATTHEW MAGUIRE >> >> M.Teach Candidate >> >> >> >> Sydney School of Education and Social Work >> >> Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences >> >> The University of Sydney >> >> >> >> Tel: +61 457 750 214 >> >> Email: mmag5...@uni.sydney.edu.au >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Solarer <sola...@hotmail.de> >> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2022 10:12:28 AM >> To: darktable-dev@lists.darktable.org <darktable-dev@lists.darktable.org> >> Subject: [darktable-dev] Why is the next version 4.0 >> >> Was just asking myself why the next version of darktable is 4.0 and not 3.10? >> Will there be a major change to the software or do we just prefer shorter >> numbers? >> Best regards, Jan >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to >> darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> darktable developer mailing list >> to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org >> >> > >___________________________________________________________________________ >darktable developer mailing list >to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
