[Dovecot] Version numbering

[Frank Cusack]

On March 28, 2007 8:46:08 AM +0200 Juergen Daubert <jue at jue.li> wrote:
> 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.

And then how do you release 1.2.1?

-frank