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

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

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

Regards,
Daniel
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