I was just futzing around with one of the file dialogs when it dawned on me 
we've been referring to "Rosegarden 2.1" for years, and we're getting ready 
to release what was expected to be "Rosegarden 2.0"

I just changed that to "X11 Rosegarden" throughout, but a little voice in my 
head is telling me this isn't distinctive enough.  I don't think we have to 
worry about any distros still confusing us with that obsolete relic Chris 
abandoned years ago, but this whole "Rosegarden 2.1" idiom is still out there 
in googlespace, yielding 2860 hits.

The hits even on the first page are obviously obsolete to me, but probably 
wouldn't be to a newbie.  I can just hear the lame questions now.  "I have 
2.0, but I see there's a 2.1 available.  Why does it look so strange?"

We already tried to deal with this whole issue once with the Rosegarden-4 
thing.  I don't think that worked out very well at all.  We still have random 
legacy references to "rosegarden-4" even though we tried to abolish the last 
of that quite some time ago.

Sitting here this evening, it occurs to me that what we should give some 
serious though to is skipping over ALL possible confusion, and just calling 
this sumbitch 5.0.

I kind of like Rosegarden 200 too, and 210 and 211 and 213 and 250 and so on, 
but I'm thinking it would be cleaner in the long run to keep a more 
conventional numbering scheme, and just kick it up high enough to get above 
any room for confusion about what's newer than what.

Discuss!
-- 
D. Michael McIntyre 

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