The idea sounds good but should we require a date in the version. I believe
the month and year should suffice. Even if we were to make more than one
release in a month the major and minor versions should hold good.

Just my thoughts

Thanks
  - Balaji
On Feb 17, 2016 11:31 PM, "Jafar Al-Gharaibeh" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I like the idea.
> This should work as long as users do not read too much into YYYYMMDD
> thinking of it as a build date rather than a sub minor version with actual
> fixes/changes in the sources, but probably that is unlikely.
>
> --Jafar
>
> On 2/16/2016 7:28 PM, Donald Sharp wrote:
>
> In today's Monthly meeting we briefly discussed how we would like to
> version Quagga going forward.  Two proposals were put forward, a date based
> version string or a Major.Minor.Bug version string.  I'd like to propose
> that we combine the two of them together and get this:
>
> Major.Minor.YYYYMMDD
>
> Major = Major restructuring/Feature added to the system, VRF comes to mind.
> Minor = Minor restructuring/Feature added to the system.  The MTR code
> changes or the zebra refactoring that has been going on comes to mind.
> YYYYMMDD =
>     YYYY  - The Year of the release
>     MM - The Month of the release
>     DD - The Day of the month of the release
>
> In the unlikely event we need to release a bug fix on the same date add
> something like a -1 to the end, or wait till tommorrow.
>
> donald
>
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