Observed confusion over the release version numbering system

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 11:28:01PM +0100, Thom Holwerda wrote:
> >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

That wouldn't make a difference

2004.4
2005.10

Trent

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