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On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 08:35:51PM -0800, Lee Bieber wrote:
> Why not year.month.release-number?   2009.03.914
>
> Jay Pipes wrote:
>> Brian Moon wrote:
>>> On 2/24/09 8:08 PM, Jay Pipes wrote:
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> We're planning on releasing the first tarballs of Drizzle in less  
>>>> than a
>>>> week. We'd like to get input on whether our ideas on release number are
>>>> hair-brained or not...
>>>>
>>>> Our plan is to release tarballs and releases that are simply named for
>>>> the Bazaar revision, whatever the rev is when we tag up the 
>>>> release. So,
>>>> for instance, the release might be just called "r914"...
>>>>
>>>> Would this work? Is there a better way of doing it that anyone is
>>>> interested in helping out with?
>>>
>>> As a geek, I kind of like it.  But, I fear that those that have not  
>>> worked on a source code repository and worked with revisions might be 
>>> confused.
>>
>> Agreed, but these tarball releases are more for geeks anyway, right? ;)
>>
>>> How about YEAR.revision?  So, 2009.914.  That gives context to age  
>>> and at the same time can point to a place in the source history.  If  
>>> I see someone has 2009.234 installed and it's 2012, I know they are  
>>> running an old ass version.  But, with just the revision, there could 
>>> be 100 or 1000 numbers between releases.  You can't easily tell age  
>>> from that. You could go full Ymd, 20090224.914, but I think that is  
>>> overkill.
>>
>> I could definitely go for that... 2009.914 is cool with me...
>>
>> -j
>>
>>
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