[Dovecot] Version numbering

"Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" ruskie at mages.ath.cx
Wed Mar 28 04:12:38 EEST 2007


On 02:46:40 2007-03-28 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> After v1.0 is released, I can finally get back to sane version numbers.
> But any comments on which one is better:
> 
> a) Postfix-style: "1.1.UNSTABLE.YYYYMMDD" -> 1.1.0 (stable)
> 
> b) Odd-even numbering: 1.1.x (unstable) -> 1.2.0 (stable)
> 
> With a) style the releases could be done by simply copying a nightly
> snapshot to releases/ directory and announcing the changes since the
> last release. I'm not sure if that's good or bad.
I'd say b) Simply because it's nicer imho... :)



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