Marc Paré a écrit :
Le 2010-10-02 18:24, André Machado a écrit :
Mageia 23, Mageia 37. Sounds good? At least for me it doesn't :)
Fedora 14 beta is out. Slackware 13.1, too. But when we get there, we
can improvise. We can do like Corel DRAW! X4 , that has a impact name
and is the 14th version (X4 = X + 4 and X is 10 in Roman numerals). Or
we can use both, eg: M$ Office 2010 is, internally, Office 14.
For more than a version to year, we can use months, sequential numbers
or a strange numbering system like Mageia 1.0.20110101 where last part
is YYYYMMDD.
Whichever numbering system is used, it should be easily understood by
the average user and it should not look like it is making the previous
version sound like an inferior product. I personally don't mind the
year assignation "Mageia 2010.1" followed by "Magiea 2010.2" which, to
me, is easily explainable to everyone ... "Mageia 2010.1" is the first
release of Mageia in 2010 and "Mageia 2010.2" is the second release of
Mageia in 2010.
As far as the year designation goes, I definitely think that we should
use the actual year, instead of copying the car industry with something
like 2011.0 for late 2010.
Personally I have some preference for using 2011.0 in March and 2011.1
in October, but 2011.1 and 2011.2 format would be ok.
It should be a numbering system that is easily understood regardless
of country, culture or age. A 10 year-old and 90 year-old should be
able to guess and understand the system easily. This could then be our
"public" numbering system. Easily read and easily understood.
As to the Cauldron, dev etc. versions, then it could very well be a
more descriptive numbering system based on day/month/year (the metric
date format) Mageia09022010. This could then be our "dev" and
"internal" numbering system. We would, of course, promote the fact,
that our develop system dating and numbering system would follow the
long established metric formats.
Marc
The date format should be year/month/day, as in 20100209. This is the
official order used by the UN, for example.
It is also used by Mozilla products, and much other software. There is
also a gradual conversion to this format by many international
companies. And much gov't issued id (as in Québec, Canada).
Day-month-year is the traditional European format.
As far as this dev/internal date goes, there is nothing to prevent it
from continuing on the official release version, along with the year of
the release.
- André (andre999)
