On 10/12/2010 3:02 AM, Marcin Bukat wrote:
I don't like discontinuity in release numbering. For me such practice is pure marketing. Marcin Bukat
Release numbering is pure marketing in the first place. "3.7" doesn't mean anything useful other than "it came after any number lower than this."
A Major.Minor system where we go from 3.7 to 3.8 to 3.9 to 3.10 to 3.11 and don't change the Major number until something significant occurs creates a way for users to quickly understand when the releases are incremental vs when some major change has occurred. You may call this "marketing" but it's also "communication with the users." Meanwhile, if we go from 3.7 to 3.8 to 3.9 to 4.0 to 4.1, the version number no longer communicates anything but sequence and we may as well have just used the SVN revision of the release in the first place.
