bzr version numbers

[Russel Winder]

On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 13:30 +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
[ . . . ]

> Going 1.7, 1.8, 1.9 feels a bit like it's creeping along, whereas
> making them date-based makes a virtual of reliability.

On the other hand it is a serial number and so people know where they
are in the release sequence.

The Ubuntu naming scheme of 8.10 really does nothing useful for me since
it is basically meaningless.  2008-10 means a lot more since I
understand ISO 8601.  I guess though Ubuntu will not be around in 3000,
so there isn't actually a problem.   Intrepid Ibex is equally
meaningless of course but does allow for some humour -- at least for 8.5
more years at which point it all falls apart.
 
> A couple of orthogonal points:
> 
> I'd like to add code names so they have a bit more colour, and it's
> more memorable what happened in them.

Or it becomes a simple vehicle for fatuous humour -- or sometimes satire
(intended or not), see the releases of Sound Juicer.

> It's annoying that deprecations and format names need the version
> coded into the patch when they start, even though it's hard to tell
> what precise release they'll land in.  I guess we could change to
> "deprecated after $previous_release" and then it will at least be
> true, though maybe too loose; or we could search and replace for some
> token.

Not sure about deprecations as they are fundamentally sequence number
oriented. Formats can surely have an orthogonal naming scheme, I don't
see why the version number of introduction has to be encoded in the
format name.  Or am I missing something obvious to the Bazaar
development team?
 
> Let's not bikeshed this; everyone has opinions from random projects.
> How about making the January release 9.1?

In the end it is your choice as project manager.  I would just release
1.11 and avoid unnecessary fashionism.
 
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