OT: 10.4 or 10.04

[Johnneylee Rollins]

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:57 PM, ms <devicerandom at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/09/10 23:05, Gurus Knugum wrote:
>>
>>> The confusion arises because they use a dot to separate year and month,
>>> creating the misconception that they are "classical" release numbers.
>>> They should write it down 10/4, 10/10, 11/4 , that is, like *dates*,
>>> because that's what they are.
>>>
>>>
>> In that case they should follow the ISO-6801 date format, that is
>> YYYY-MM-DD (or in this case only YYYY-DD or YY-DD), which in these cases
>> will be 10-04, 10-10 and 11-04. But 2010-04 is more obvious and easier to
>> understand.
>
> Well, no need of being to enforce an ISO format necessarily for such a
> trivial matter :) , but yes, anything would be better than the dot
> separator. 2010-04 seems to me the best thing (and could be written
> 2010-4 without being misleading).
>
We all tend to forget this crucial point: It's Mark Shuttleworth's toy
that he is letting us use. He could use the number of times he's gone
to the bathroom since the last major release as the version number.
Just for clarity in communication, learn the damn system or use his
childish animal code names. :(

Although, I will call Jaunty the last really Orange release.
~SpaceGhost
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