Re: Dropping the .0 on release numbers?

2010-09-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:12:15 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 15/09/2010 16:27, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > > > I was thinking about this overnight, and I think dropping .0 does > > actually make a lot of sense for marketing/publicity purposes. A > > release announcement along the lines of "The D

Re: Dropping the .0 on release numbers?

2010-09-15 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 15/09/2010 16:27, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > I was thinking about this overnight, and I think dropping .0 does > actually make a lot of sense for marketing/publicity purposes. A > release announcement along the lines of "The Debian project is proud > to announce the release of version 6 of t

Re: Dropping the .0 on release numbers?

2010-09-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:23:30 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On tiisdei 14 Septimber 2010, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > So, for the past years we have had x.0.y with growing `y' for point > > releases, and skiping to (x+1).0.0. And the zero in the middle carries > > no meaning anymore. > > It also doesn

Re: Dropping the .0 on release numbers?

2010-09-15 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On tiisdei 14 Septimber 2010, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > So, for the past years we have had x.0.y with growing `y' for point > releases, and skiping to (x+1).0.0. And the zero in the middle carries > no meaning anymore. It also doesn't do any harm, does it? I would vastly prefer not to change our versi

Re: Dropping the .0 on release numbers?

2010-09-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Gunnar Wolf [100914 19:25]: > We have carried a major.minor scheme as a release numbering scheme > since the Early Days, Actually, AFAIK since lenny we no longer use major.minor but release.andhalf.point. There just has not been any 5.1.0 (aka lenny-and-half). Bernhard R. Link -- T

Re: Dropping the .0 on release numbers?

2010-09-14 Thread Simon Paillard
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:23:27PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:05:57PM +0200, Simon Paillard wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:25:25PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > >> We have carried a major.minor scheme as a release numbering scheme > >> since the Early Days, > >[..

Re: Dropping the .0 on release numbers?

2010-09-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:05:57PM +0200, Simon Paillard wrote: >On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:25:25PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >> We have carried a major.minor scheme as a release numbering scheme >> since the Early Days, >[..] >> So, for the past years we have had x.0.y with growing `y' for point >

Re: Dropping the .0 on release numbers?

2010-09-14 Thread Simon Paillard
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:25:25PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > We have carried a major.minor scheme as a release numbering scheme > since the Early Days, [..] > So, for the past years we have had x.0.y with growing `y' for point > releases, and skiping to (x+1).0.0. And the zero in the middle carri

Re: Dropping the .0 on release numbers?

2010-09-14 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:13:35 -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 01:58:51PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > The .0 actually has quite a bit relevance since it signifies a new > > major long-term release. It also demonstrates stability when used in > > conjunction with the thir

Re: Dropping the .0 on release numbers?

2010-09-14 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 01:58:51PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > The .0 actually has quite a bit relevance since it signifies a new > major long-term release. It also demonstrates stability when used in > conjunction with the third digit. 6.0.1 seems like a rather minor > update, which accurate

Re: Dropping the .0 on release numbers?

2010-09-14 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 09/14/2010 07:58 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:25:25 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We have carried a major.minor scheme as a release numbering scheme >> since the Early Days, but it has lost relevance basically since Sarge >> (3.1 - But by the time it was finally r

Re: Dropping the .0 on release numbers?

2010-09-14 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:25:25 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Hi, > > We have carried a major.minor scheme as a release numbering scheme > since the Early Days, but it has lost relevance basically since Sarge > (3.1 - But by the time it was finally released, some discussion was > made whether Sarge sho

Dropping the .0 on release numbers?

2010-09-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hi, We have carried a major.minor scheme as a release numbering scheme since the Early Days, but it has lost relevance basically since Sarge (3.1 - But by the time it was finally released, some discussion was made whether Sarge should be 4.0 as the difference from Woody was already too large, to w