On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > After the confusion that Postfix 2.10 is not Postfix 2.1, maybe it > is time to change the release numbering scheme. > > We could to the Linux thing where 2.mumble was followed by 3.mumble.
A version number change based loosely on the concept of "increment version on anniversary"? > or we could do it like Sun. After releasing Solaris 2.0 .. 2.6, > they changed the numbering scheme with Solaris 7 which was released > way back in 1998. Nowadays, many software distributions change the > major release number frequently, if not every time. The jump would be mimicry of a company having a Marketing Department. I'd think there would be even more questions of: "where is version 3 to 10". If 2.10 would always be followed by (.10 as in ten) in all docs it might help. Possibly add a release date beside it. I'm a traditionalist and associate major version changes with "I really better read the release notes". Major version changes that rattle me for no reason are irksome.
