[libvirt] Switch to a time based version number rule

Jiri Denemark jdenemar at redhat.com
Mon Jun 13 13:15:22 UTC 2016


On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 13:56:54 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> So what I'm suggesting is that we adopt the following rule
> 
>  - major: bumped for the first release of each year
>  - minor: bumped for every major release
>  - micro: bumped for stable branch releases
> 
> Rather than wait until next January to adopt this rule, I'd suggest we
> pretend that it is January now, and thus switch our next version number
> to be 2.0.0, and jump to 3.0.0 in January 2017.

I like this idea. Predictable version numbers can't hurt anyone and they
may sometimes even help.

Jirka




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