>
> I don’t really see the advantage to this over 4.1.0-SNAPSHOT1

Only benefit is that it indicates the purpose of the snapshot (date-based)
rather than leaving it unspecified / as an exercise to the reader.

If the theorized workflow is people testing latest snapshot, doesn't add
any value.


On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 11:18 AM Brandon Williams <dri...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 9:10 AM Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > A negative reaction of this approach is that our released versions
> > will jump minor versions. For example, next year's release could be
> > 4.3.0 and users might ask what happened to 4.1 and 4.2. This should
> > only be a cosmetic concern, and general feedback seems to be that
> > users don't care so long as version numbers are going up, and that we
> > use semantic versioning so that major version increments mean
> > something (we would never jump a major version).
>
> I don't think this is a major concern (today we go from 3.0 to 3.11
> from ticktock, after all) since the important thing is that the
> version is larger and lexicographically sorts after the earlier one.
> If I'm updating a machine via apt/rpm/whatever I may note which
> packages are upgrading, but as long as the versions are greater there
> isn't much reason to dig further.  Generally when I do that, versions
> are being skipped already.
>
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