I partially Agree with Timo. Or we simply call the Builds "Development" or
"Preview" without Version (or at least the next upcoming Minor one). (SVN
is a bad naming, I still hope that we will finally jump to git :-P)

2016-04-16 1:53 GMT+02:00 Timo Kreuzer <timo.kreu...@web.de>:

> There is a difference: We are presenting our stuff to the public right
> after we have been releasing a major version, while MS is presenting stuff
> that is much closer to the targeted version than to the previous. IIRC MS
> didn't sell XP SP1 as a Vista/7 preview. (They should have sold Vista as a
> Win7 preview though :))
> IMO we should name it "0.4+ development", which is less confusing and
> doesn't make people think we are close to 0.5 in trunk.
>
>
> Am 14.04.2016 um 19:33 schrieb Alex Ionescu:
>
>> Are you equally confused when Windows 10 Anniversary Update preview
>> builds also present themselves as such, even though it'snot coming out
>> until later?
>> Best regards,
>> Alex Ionescu
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo
>> <elh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> what about changing "-" by "+"?
>>>
>>> "0.4+SVNx"
>>> that would mean, "this is the 0.4. version, plus svn revisions until x"
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 11:25 PM, Mark Jansen <learn0more+...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This way of numbering seems very confusing to me, and I assume to other
>>>> people as well..
>>>> When ReactOS presents itself as 0.5-SVN, I would expect this to be a 0.5
>>>> release, and not a 0.4 release that is working towards a 0.5.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> PS: I wasn't subscribed at the time this was sent, so sending a 'fake'
>>>> reply :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ged Murphy gedmurphy.maillists at gmail.com
>>>>> Mon Feb 29 16:07:49 UTC 2016
>>>>>
>>>>> Because that’s what is being worked towards now, and there will be an
>>>>> unknown number of point releases until it’s reached.
>>>>>
>>>>> It’s also a bit of nostalgia, it’s what we’ve always done :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Ros-dev [mailto:ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org] On Behalf Of
>>>>>> Hermès
>>>>>> BÉLUSCA - MAÏTO
>>>>>> Sent: 29 February 2016 16:00
>>>>>> To: ReactOS Development List <ros-dev at reactos.org>
>>>>>> Subject: [ros-dev] ReactOS SVN version naming
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would like to understand what’s the rationale behind changing the
>>>>>> ReactOS
>>>>>> trunk version from “0.4-SVN” to “0.5-SVN” (see revision 70818) whereas
>>>>>> we
>>>>>> have just started to release ROS 0.4.0 only?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advance for your explanations!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Hermès.
>>>>>>
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