Re: what's a stable release?

[Bruce Korb]

On 01/09/11 16:36, Karl Berry wrote:
> In gnulib-intro.texi, I noticed some text:
> 
>     We also make stable releases every two months, at
>     @url{http://erislabs.net/ianb/projects/gnulib/}.
> 
> I wasn't aware this was being promulgated as an official release that
> "we" make.

I do hope we do define stability points.  Otherwise, the libposix
version number is just some random commit count, rendering it
pretty difficult to track.  That version number should reference
some stable or quasi-stable point, or else a date version,
a la 2011.01.09.  A monotonically increasing commit count
with no easy way to correlate with anything does not seem
like a very good choice......

Cheers - Bruce