[Dovecot] Version numbering

[Ejay Hire]

I support A.  If I get a package from an RPM repository and the version
number is 1.3, I will think it is better than 1.2.

If I get a package from an RPM repository and the version number is
1.3.unstable, I am smart enough to know that it might be "unstable".

-ejay

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 21:48 +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> > 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 suggest a), consider however adding a public list that shows the
> release dates. The latter is helpful if you start fixing bugs in the
> stable release and the unstable at the same time, so that people can
> easily check the bug fix date for the common fixes.