18 Jun
2011
18 Jun
'11
8 a.m.
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 23:49 -0700, Jon Cruz wrote:
Second, I think the year based scheme should be what we go with. A different numbering scheme could work, but if we move it forward then we lose the semantics of the major/minor compatibility issue that is so handy. On the other hand, a year based version clearly communicates to users when it was released, and how old it is getting.
Internally we can keep a compatibility version going, but externally we can focus on the 11.10 style. That also can help once we hit three or more releases per year.
I second this. Year-based versioning (I think YEAR.MONTH specifically), with an internal semver-compliant version that keeps counting from 0.49 or whatever.
-mental