Adrian, I think your explanation is much clearer than mine was. Thanks
David Carlson On Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 4:34 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > I’m not sure that makes it any clearer as 10.1 is *also* codenamed > ‘Buster’. (the entire Debian 10 version, all releases, are ‘buster’) > > I think this is a confusion of terminology. > > It appears the questioner thought that a ‘major release’ is a specific > singular release and that minor releases follow the major one. > > The confusion is in referring to ‘major’ as a 'release’ when it in fact is > a ‘version’. There is no such thing as a ‘major release’. There are several > releases for each major ‘version’. There will of course, always be a first > x.0 release of a major version. (and we are now on release #9, dubbed 3.8 > of the major version 3 of GnuCash) > > As described previously, major *versions* were '2.4', '2.6', and now '3'. > > The reason for this difference is that prior to 3.0, a 3-number scheme was > used. (fundamental.major.minor/bug-fix) > > So there were several minor or 'bug-fix' releases in the 2.4.x > series/version. > > The same for the 2.6.x series/version. (the last of which was 2.6.21) > > Development versions were odd-numbered. (‘2.5’, ‘2.7’ for example) > > The third number was dropped for 3.0 (which would have been 2.8.0 had the > old scheme continued) There were long explanations and discussions as to > why this change was made. (now it is ‘major.minor’) > > There will be ‘3.9xx' versions (the first being '3.901’) which are the > development versions in the run-up to version ‘4’, the first release of > which will be ‘4.0’. If the pattern holds, there will at some point then be > ‘4.9xx’ development versions in the run-up to version ‘5’. > > > For the official outline of version numbering see the wiki: > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development_Process#Release_Version_Numbering > > And for the planned release schedule: > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Release_Schedule > > Regards, > Adrien > > > > > On Feb 12, 2020 w7d43, at 11:40 AM, David Carlson < > david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > If Gnucash releases had codenames like some Linux releases such as > Debian, > > it might be easier to understand. The first Debian "buster" release was > > Debian 10.0. > > > > David Carlson > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.