From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering
Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 09:02:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180502080200.GG3308@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180502074403.yh5weukbjgqsvp7n@sirius.home.kraxel.org>
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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Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-27 15:51 [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing, numbering Peter Maydell
2018-04-27 16:17 ` Thomas Huth
2018-04-27 16:24 ` Peter Maydell
2018-04-27 16:42 ` Thomas Huth
2018-04-30 10:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-04-30 10:11 ` Peter Maydell
2018-05-02 11:58 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-05-02 12:05 ` Peter Maydell
2018-05-03 9:33 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-05-03 9:42 ` Thomas Huth
2018-05-03 9:45 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-05-03 14:01 ` Cédric Le Goater
2018-05-03 14:16 ` Cédric Le Goater
2018-05-03 18:02 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2018-05-03 18:50 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-05-04 8:29 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2018-05-04 5:29 ` Markus Armbruster
2018-05-04 8:16 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2018-05-04 8:24 ` Peter Maydell
2018-04-27 19:01 ` Michal Suchánek
2018-04-29 14:56 ` Richard Henderson
2018-05-02 10:41 ` Laszlo Ersek
2018-05-02 11:51 ` Peter Maydell
2018-05-07 18:12 ` Michal Suchánek
2018-04-30 10:35 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-05-02 7:29 ` Markus Armbruster
2018-05-02 8:16 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-05-02 9:44 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-04-30 9:29 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-04-30 10:01 ` Peter Maydell
2018-04-30 10:33 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-04-30 11:21 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-04-30 17:36 ` Thomas Huth
2018-05-02 7:33 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-05-02 7:43 ` Liviu Ionescu
2018-05-02 7:59 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-05-02 8:02 ` Liviu Ionescu
2018-05-02 8:13 ` Thomas Huth
2018-05-02 9:03 ` Liviu Ionescu
2018-05-02 9:10 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-05-28 9:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-05-02 9:21 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-05-02 9:22 ` Thomas Huth
2018-05-02 8:26 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-05-04 17:34 ` Max Reitz
2018-05-02 7:44 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2018-05-02 8:02 ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2018-05-03 7:21 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2018-05-03 9:07 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-05-03 9:26 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-05-03 9:26 ` Peter Maydell
2018-05-03 9:31 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-05-03 9:47 ` Thomas Huth
2018-05-03 13:43 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2018-05-03 14:06 ` Thomas Huth
2018-05-03 14:16 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-05-07 13:38 ` Kashyap Chamarthy
2018-05-07 16:51 ` Thomas Huth
2018-05-03 14:16 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-05-04 13:20 ` Kevin Wolf
2018-05-04 13:53 ` Thomas Huth
2018-05-04 14:23 ` Kevin Wolf
2018-05-04 17:30 ` Richard Henderson
2018-05-07 5:33 ` Thomas Huth
2018-05-07 14:05 ` Kevin Wolf
2018-05-22 10:07 ` Peter Maydell
2018-06-01 11:57 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-04-30 14:23 ` Greg Kurz
2018-04-30 14:30 ` Peter Maydell
2018-04-30 14:34 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-05-03 1:04 ` David Gibson
2018-05-01 12:24 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2018-05-01 12:48 ` Peter Maydell
2018-05-03 21:52 ` Laurent Vivier
2018-05-04 8:40 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2018-05-28 5:31 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
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