Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering

[Peter Maydell]

On 3 May 2018 at 10:07, Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 08:21:00AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> I don't see an issue with time-based numbering schemes.  Ubuntu made it
>> popular and other projects (like DPDK) are doing the same thing now.
>>
>> The convention is YY.MM though, not YYMM.
>
> It feels like we've got quite a strong backing for time based versioning
> amongst people replying here. I'd be happy with YY.MM

I'm not hugely in favour mostly because I don't much like
changing version numbering formats -- does it really gain
us anything? But I guess it's a bit of a bikeshed-colour question.

thanks
-- PMM