Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [qemu-web] Put version numbering details in its own doc

[Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 04:24:37PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 05:20:52PM +0100, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> > Instead of burying the version numbering details under "Download QEMU"
> > page, place it in its own document.  And highlight its presence in the
> > website footer.
> 
> I'm not sure I agree with saying it is "buried" on the download page.

True.  I exaggerated a bit there; sorry.

> It is pretty clearly visible, and it is relevant information at the
> time you are downloading. If anything, moving it off into a separate
> page /is/ burying it IMHO, as now its not visible at time of download

Your argument is valid, and at first I actually did think the way
describe.  Then I remembered how I recently was trying to look up the
versioning details of QEMU and not finding it.  Not sure what terms I
used at that time.

Right now, typing "qemu version numbering" (*without* quotes) does show
the "Download QEMU" page as third result.  And the first result points
to this page:

    https://www.qemu.org/2018/08/15/qemu-3-0-0/

Which does have:

    A note from the maintainer: Why 3.0? Well, we felt that our version
    numbers were getting a bit unwieldy, and since this year is QEMU’s
    15th birthday it seemed like a good excuse to roll over the major
    digit.  Going forward we plan to increment the major version once a
    year, for the first release of the year. Don’t read too much into
    it: it doesn’t imply a drastic compatibility break. 

So, I tend to agree with what you said, so feel free to disregard this
change, then. :-)

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/kashyap