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

[Richard Henderson]

On 05/04/2018 06:20 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> I'm not sure what the exact systemd model is, but as we came to the
> conclusion that there is no semantic difference between major and minor
> version number for QEMU, I'd just merge them.
> 
> This would result in 3.0 for the next release, 3.1 etc. would be stable
> releases, and the December release would be 4.0.
> 
> It feels like the minimal change to fix our existing versioning scheme.

This is very similar to what GCC started to use at version 5.

    https://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html#num_scheme

I do think it makes sense to drop minor versions, leaving only major +
patchlevel (which then appears to be minor version).


r~