[Dovecot] Version numbering
Juergen Daubert
jue at jue.li
Wed Mar 28 09:46:08 EEST 2007
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:28:24PM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote:
> >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)
>
> I like (a) but even better I like 1.1.0{a,b,rc}N -> 1.1.0
>
> Even-odd is confusing because you can't tell which 1.1.x versions are
> newer than any 1.2.y version.
You misunderstood that. After the release of 1.2.0, 1.1.x is
frozen and development starts again in 1.3.0.
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