On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 03:16:10PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 04:06:19PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > > On 03.05.2018 15:43, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
[...] > > > (a) major equals year, minor equals month (ubuntu style). > > > (b) major equals year, minor counts up (mesa style). > > > (c) major is bumped each year, but doesn't equal year (libvirt style). > > > > > > If we don't want give them a meaning, how about: > > > > > > (d) just drop the minor and count up major each release (systemd style)? > > > > > > My personal preference would be (a) or (b), because it is easy to see > > > when a version was released. (b) looks more like a classic version > > > number, we would have 18.0, 18.1, ... instead of 18.04, 18.08, ... > > > > I'd really would like to avoid variant (a) ... otherwise people will > > confuse 18.1.1 and 18.11 (aka. 18.11.0) again... > > We could keep major == year, minor == nth release of $year. eg 18.1, > 18.2, 18.3 for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd releases of 2018. Still makes it > fairly clear what timeframe each was released in, without having to > follow month numbers. FWIW, the above option sounds simplest to explain so far. -- /kashyap
