[Dovecot] Version numbering

[alan premselaar]

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On 03/28/07 9:46 am, Timo Sirainen 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 vote for a) as it make it very clear which is the stable version and
which is not.

theoretically the unstable versions shouldn't be in production, so
production style versioning for the unstable versions shouldn't really
be necessary.

my 2yen worth.

Alan
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