Propose of new version scheme

[Jan Wagner]

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Am 20.03.14 12:49, schrieb Holger Weiß:
> * Jan Wagner <waja at cyconet.org> [2014-03-20 12:38]:
>> I`m proposing a new version scheme which could look like:
>> 
>> <year>.<month>[.bugfixrelease]
>> 
>> If you think this looks very familiar ... yes it`s used by ubuntu
>> and may others.
>> 
>> What maybe the benefits of a complete different release scheme:
>> 
>> * there will probably no version number races between existing
>> forks (which is totally nonsense) * we can better identify, if a
>> plugin is from our fork or no - this might help when we get
>> bugreports/complaints, especially when forks are more diversing
>> on code base
> 
> As you know, we currently have X.Y.Z, where Z is incremented for
> bug fix releases, Y for backwards-compatible feature releases, and
> X for backwards-incompatible releases.¹  The new scheme wouldn't
> allow for distinguishing the latter two, but I could live with
> that.  I'm fine with either scheme.

In Debian they are using an epoch.

We chould implement that with:

X.<year>.<month>[.bugfixrelease]

Where X stands for incompatible releases.

No? :)
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