Quoting Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi:
a) Postfix-style: "1.1.UNSTABLE.YYYYMMDD" -> 1.1.0 (stable)
Not my favorite, but works for me. Seems good for Timo, since he likes to release dated snapshots anyway.
b) Odd-even numbering: 1.1.x (unstable) -> 1.2.0 (stable)
I don't like this, as the average new user has no idea that the odds are unstable, and runs them, then gets flamed for it, etc. No matter how well you document it on the web/wiki, people are going to mistakenly run the odd number releases and get in trouble.
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.
Why not just put actual (stable) releases in the "releases/" directory, and put the "unstable" releases in another directory (unstable, testing, or some such).
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