> I don't see the difference in marketing boost between 3.x and year based 
version.  In both cases, the users will see a significant change to the 
version number and will evaluate the meaning of that significant change to 
the version number.

Moving to 3.0 would indicate to me a new major release, regardless of 
knowing the current version number; whereas moving to 2027.1 I could assume 
is just a standard incremental change from 2026.x.
On Tuesday, 3 February 2026 at 15:56:21 UTC Mark Waite wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 6:50 AM 'Jesse Glick' wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 1, 2026 at 4:50 AM Mark Waite wrote:
>>
>>> The second field of the version number would be the week of the year
>>>
>>
>> This seems bizarre to me. Why not just use ISO-like dates, like Ubuntu 
>> and others? https://calver.org/users.html 
>> https://github.com/ducks/date-ver etc. give the idea. Jenkins 2026.04 
>> seems self-explanatory.
>>
>
> Your example seems to switch to a month based versioning scheme.  That 
> could be a positive step as we could then choose the second Wednesday of 
> each month as the LTS release date, avoiding the calendar complications of 
> our 12-week LTS release schedule.
>
> How should we number weekly releases?   How can we avoid confusion between 
> weekly and LTS releases?
>
> Mark Waite
>

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