On July 29, 2014 6:45:13 PM CEST, Eric Botcazou <ebotca...@libertysurf.fr> wrote: >> I think that if anybody has strong objections, now is the time to >make >> them. Otherwise I think we should go with this plan. > >IMHO the cure is worse than the disease. > >> Given that there is no clear reason to ever change the major version >> number, making that change will not convey any useful information to >> our users. So let's just drop the major version number. Once we've >> made that decision, then the next release (in 2015) naturally becomes >> 5.0, the release after that (in 2016) becomes 6.0, etc. > >I don't really understand the "naturally": if you drop the major >version >number, the next release should be 10.0, not 5.0.
10.0 would be even better from a marketing perspective. Richard. Here we seem to be >leaning >towards a weird scheme where we retain the major version number but >change its >meaning, which will be even more confusing than the current scheme.
