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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing,
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To: Daniel =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=2E_Berrang=E9?= <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 03:16:10PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrang=E9 wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 04:06:19PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > On 03.05.2018 15:43, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:

[...]

> > >   (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 st=
yle).
> > >=20
> > > If we don't want give them a meaning, how about:
> > >=20
> > >   (d) just drop the minor and count up major each release (systemd =
style)?
> > >=20
> > > My personal preference would be (a) or (b), because it is easy to s=
ee
> > > 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, ...
> >=20
> > I'd really would like to avoid variant (a) ... otherwise people will
> > confuse 18.1.1 and 18.11 (aka. 18.11.0) again...
>=20
> We could keep major =3D=3D year, minor =3D=3D nth release of $year. eg =
18.1,
> 18.2, 18.3 for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd releases of 2018. Still makes it
> fairly clear what timeframe each was released in, without having to
> follow month numbers.

FWIW, the above option sounds simplest to explain so far.

--=20
/kashyap