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Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering
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Cornelia Huck |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering |
Date: |
Thu, 3 May 2018 16:16:14 +0200 |
On Thu, 3 May 2018 16:06:19 +0200
Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 03.05.2018 15:43, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 10:26:40AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Well, major/minor numbers don't mean anything. So I think it makes
> > sense to give them a meaning, and given we do time-based releases it
> > surely makes sense to use a time-based scheme. Major indicating the
> > year is the obvious and common choice here. Various variants are in
> > use:
> >
> > (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...
Just use YYYY instead of YY :)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/05/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Cornelia Huck, 2018/05/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Peter Maydell, 2018/05/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/05/03
- 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
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/05/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Kashyap Chamarthy, 2018/05/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Thomas Huth, 2018/05/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering,
Cornelia Huck <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Kevin Wolf, 2018/05/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Thomas Huth, 2018/05/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Kevin Wolf, 2018/05/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Richard Henderson, 2018/05/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Thomas Huth, 2018/05/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Kevin Wolf, 2018/05/07
Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Laszlo Ersek, 2018/05/02
Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/05/02