[rfc] six-month stable release cycles

[Daniel Clemente]

El dt, ago 04 2009 a les 12:09, Matthew D. Fuller va escriure:
> 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".

And also with people. Most people won't know what that M means. 3.5M1 looks similar to 3.5.1 when you don't understand the M.