On 23.11.2017 12:14, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 10:17:48AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 23 November 2017 at 10:03, Cornelia Huck <coh...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:14:28 +0100 >>> Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> >>>> By the way, before everybody now introduces "2.12" machine types ... is >>>> there already a consensus that the next version will be "2.12" ? >>>> >>>> A couple of months ago, we discussed that we could maybe do a 3.0 after >>>> 2.11, e.g. here: >>>> >>>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-03/msg05056.html >>>> >>>> I'd still like to see that happen... Peter, any thoughts on this? >>> >>> So, as I just thought about preparing the new machine for s390x as >>> well: Did we reach any consensus about what the next qemu version will >>> be called? >> >> I haven't seen any sufficiently solid plan to make me want to >> pick anything except "2.12". > > I would suggest we just make major version number changes explicitly an > arbitrary choice. ie just bump the major version for the first release > of each year. Or just always bump it when we get to x.5 o x.9.
FWIW, I like the idea to bump it when we get to x.9. (Having mixed up x.1 and x.10 for other projects in the past already, I don't like two digit minor release version numbers very much). Thomas
