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

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

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.

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/kashyap