Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 3.0 ?

[Thomas Huth]

On 23.11.2017 12:14, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 10:17:48AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 23 November 2017 at 10:03, Cornelia Huck <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:14:28 +0100
>>> Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>> By the way, before everybody now introduces "2.12" machine types ... is
>>>> there already a consensus that the next version will be "2.12" ?
>>>>
>>>> A couple of months ago, we discussed that we could maybe do a 3.0 after
>>>> 2.11, e.g. here:
>>>>
>>>>  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-03/msg05056.html
>>>>
>>>> I'd still like to see that happen... Peter, any thoughts on this?
>>>
>>> So, as I just thought about preparing the new machine for s390x as
>>> well: Did we reach any consensus about what the next qemu version will
>>> be called?
>>
>> I haven't seen any sufficiently solid plan to make me want to
>> pick anything except "2.12".
> 
> I would suggest we just make major version number changes explicitly an
> arbitrary choice. ie just bump the major version for the first release
> of each year. Or just always bump it when we get to x.5 o x.9.

FWIW, I like the idea to bump it when we get to x.9. (Having mixed up
x.1 and x.10 for other projects in the past already, I don't like two
digit minor release version numbers very much).

 Thomas