[libvirt] Switch to a time based version number rule

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Mon Jun 13 17:09:49 UTC 2016


On Mon, 2016-06-13 at 17:58 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > If we really want to go time-based, why don't we keep it
> > really straightforward and predictable and do
>> >   July 2016     -> 2016.7.0
> >   August 2016   -> 2016.8.0
> >   ...
> >   January 2017  -> 2017.1.0
> >   February 2017 -> 2017.2.0
>> > If we'll happen to skip a month for whatever reason, we
> > can simply skip the corresponding minor number.
> 
> Having a full year in there means more typing for everyone

A bit, yeah. On the other hand, I think it would make it even
clearer that the release schedule is entirely time-based.

> and I think skipping version numbers would actually be
> confusing, as it could people to think there was a missing
> release

Think Ubuntu - they always have a six month gap between
releases, but I've yet to hear anyone complain about that.

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Andrea Bolognani
Software Engineer - Virtualization Team




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