Very good point, but I think we should mention the release date that way we as developers as well as the community as a whole can tell what release they are on.
On Sunday 19 January 2014 11:33:17 Vesa wrote: > On 01/19/2014 10:30 AM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > > Toby I think we should include the day somewhere in there. What if we have > > multiple releases in a given month or quarter. At least people can tell > > with the day that hey a new release has been put out. > > > > I am proposing something similar > > > > Year.month.day.release > > Hmm, I think it's best to keep version numbers simple, it's easier for > users. Think about it, it's easier to say "I'm using LMMS 2.0" than it > is to say "I'm using LMMS 3.11.0.68-rc7-beta-1.01c". Especially in > spoken conversation! "What music software are you using?" "Well, I'm > using LMMS 2.51b.42-pants.358"... "um, can you repeat that?" vs. "oh, > I'm using LMMS one-point-one"... "Ok, gotcha!" > > Users should only have to keep track of two numbers. I think the best > would be a simple YY.MM (counting the years from 1 so that 14=1 would be > my preference), and if we have two releases in the same month, we can > just add a .1 or .5 to the end then. > > So for example, if this month we release LMMS 1.01, and then release a > quick bugfix release during the same month, that could be 1.01.1 or > 1.01.5. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. > Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For > Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. > Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > LMMS-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
