Hi Jacques, it sounds like a good idea; I would like to suppress the mention to Ubuntu and simply describe the naming convention we use.
Kind regards, Jacopo On Oct 19, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: > Hi Jacopo, > > Maybe we could add an explanation on top of the download page, to make things > more clear. From > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/Release+Plan#ReleasePlan-GeneralReleasePolicies > > We could say > > <<Release branches are created once per year, so far in April . We use the > same release numbering scheme than Ubuntu (for instance, 9.4 means released > in 2009.April).>> > > Jacques > > From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[email protected]> >> Hi Jacques, >> >> On Oct 18, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: >> >>> The same (than Bruno) was also asked later by Ruth later (in another >>> thread) BTW... >>> What don't you like in the release name convention? The Ubuntu way? >> >> It is not a big deal but, since we have very few releases an old traditional >> sequence would have worked fine imo. >> Now we have 09.04 but people are confused because they may think there is >> also a 09.03 or it is not obvious that 09.04 is greater than 4. >> And last point, it is not that clear that 09.04 means 2009.04... >> >> But at this point it is fine and imo having one convention and sticking to >> it is much better than changing it. >> >> Jacopo >>
