Am 29.06.19 um 15:28 schrieb Andrey Rahmatullin: > On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 01:53:35PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote: >> TLDR; year based release identifiers should be prefered since they are >> much more intuitive to reason about than codenames and sequentialy >> numbered release identifiers. >> >> If Debian should improve/change release identifiers, then I'd suggest to >> ponder a year based versioning scheme (as Ubuntu is using). > This only works with Ubuntu because they set the release date in advance.
You assign the year to the release identifier when the release is ready: release_id = now().year(). There's certainly some infrastructure stuff that needs that release_id that needs to be prepared in advance, but I think that can be done pragmatically, when the release is "99%" ready. Am I missing something? *t
