[rfc] six-month stable release cycles

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 06:49:43PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Brian de Alwis, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> FWIW: The Eclipse project avoid numbering issues by calling
> development releases "milestones".  Each formal release consists of
> a  milestone period for introducing new functionality (e.g., 3.5M1,
> 3.5M2, ...), followed usually a set of release candidates for
> ironing  out bugs (3.5RC1, ... 3.5RC4), of which the last is
> (hopefully)  promoted as the GA for general availability (R3.5).

This can cause ordering problems with tools.  Packaging systems may
well be of the opinion that "3.5M1" is 'newer' than "3.5".


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