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Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering
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Daniel P . Berrangé |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering |
Date: |
Thu, 3 May 2018 10:07:27 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) |
On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 08:21:00AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 09:02:00AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 09:44:03AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > > If we bump the major version each year anyway, why not go the whole
> > > > > way
> > > > > and use 2018.1, 2018.2, ... (or even <year>.<month>)? The nice thing
> > > > > about that is that you can see at a glance when the release took
> > > > > place.
> > > >
> > > > ... or simply drop the first two digits and call them 18.1, 18.2, ...?
> >
> > > We could also drop the major/minor scheme altogether (as they are
> > > meaningless anyway) and just go for YYMM, i.e. 1808 (for a august
> > > release).
> >
> > I don't much like that - it'll lead to a wierd progression of numbers
> > where we'll be constantly the rationale re-explaining to people who
> > want to know why we've jumped from 1808 to 1902 to 1905 etc
>
> 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
Regards,
Daniel
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Liviu Ionescu, 2018/05/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/05/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Paolo Bonzini, 2018/05/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Cornelia Huck, 2018/05/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Thomas Huth, 2018/05/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Cornelia Huck, 2018/05/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Max Reitz, 2018/05/04
Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Gerd Hoffmann, 2018/05/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/05/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2018/05/03
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Thomas Huth, 2018/05/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Gerd Hoffmann, 2018/05/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Thomas Huth, 2018/05/03
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