On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 6:40 PM Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Going from 8.x to 9.0 did not follow these rules. There was not > particular incompatibility at all. The major number changed only > because it was the first Apache release. Other people have suggested > boosting the major number to celebrate the NuttX2019 event. The only > point is that we need to decide what these numbers mean and be consistent.
Oh the reason for 8.x to 9.0 was a sort of potential "incompatibility": We changed the version number because the license begins to change from BSD to Apache. That could be considered "incompatible" to some users.
