Observed confusion over the release version numbering system

> Not that I enjoy opening a can of worms, but might I suggest that we
> consider using a more intuitive version numbering system?
>
> One idea comes to mind, and from what I can see this is the least
> different yet still intuitive approach we could do.  Simply keep the
> major version number as the year, but instead give the minor version
> number as the ordered release number for that year.  So, our first
> release in 2006 would be 6.1, our second 6.2, and so forth.

Why not use the same versioning scheme Ubuntu has now, just more  
complete?

5.10 would be 2005.10


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