> Do we want to adopt that? Yes this is what we agreed on.
> 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. I'd also like to add that before releasing 9.0 we missed 2 release cycles, so the difference between 8.x and 9.0 was also quite large. On Mon, Sep 14, 2020, 01:42 Nathan Hartman <hartman.nat...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
