I think it’s confusing to start with 9.0 when the prior releases were a 
commercial product, not an open source project.

Groovy maintained its versioning pattern when it entered ASF but it has always 
been OSS and the prior versions are still available.

YMMV,
Anthony


> On Jan 8, 2016, at 3:16 PM, Greg Chase <g...@gregchase.com> wrote:
> 
> Greetings community,
> Whether it was a typo or intended, I've seen some recent discrepancies in
> how we are "numbering" the first release of Apache Geode.
> 
> Given that this software has a long commercial heritage that previously
> ended  in version 8.x, I could see we might choose to label it "9.0" given
> the major platform changes that have occurred.
> 
> However, I totally understand if its numbered "0.x" or "1.x Alpha" since
> this is its first release as an Apache project.
> 
> Personally, I'd like to see a "9.0 Alpha" since this software is some
> serious stuff solving some major problems in its prior ownership model.
> 
> -Greg

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