Versioning scheme

[Trustin Lee]

Hi all,

For now we are using an even/odd versioining scheme with three components (major.minor.micro)  An even minor version means stable, and an odd minor version means unstable.  I think this even/odd separation is a great idea, but it puts us in a big trouble when we bump up tje major version number.  MINA is a good example.  MINA is going to move to Java 5, and thus its major version number should be 2 ( i.e. 2.0.0), but we can't go to 2.0 because the minor version number 0 means 'stable'.  So we are talking about using the version number 1.5 or 1.9, but I think it's very weird because we've changed our platform.

Is there any good idea to solve this problem?  My current idea is to switch the meaning of even and odd numbers ( i.e. Even = unstable, Odd = stable).  I think this is more natural because 2.0 can't be stable.  Most people thinks 2.1 is much more stablized version.  But there might be different cultural background among Asians and Americans/Europeans, so I'm not sure if this idea will work fine for everyone.

WDYT?

Trustin
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