> I think that if anybody has strong objections, now is the time to make > them. Otherwise I think we should go with this plan.
IMHO the cure is worse than the disease. > Given that there is no clear reason to ever change the major version > number, making that change will not convey any useful information to > our users. So let's just drop the major version number. Once we've > made that decision, then the next release (in 2015) naturally becomes > 5.0, the release after that (in 2016) becomes 6.0, etc. I don't really understand the "naturally": if you drop the major version number, the next release should be 10.0, not 5.0. Here we seem to be leaning towards a weird scheme where we retain the major version number but change its meaning, which will be even more confusing than the current scheme. -- Eric Botcazou
