Hello Rainer, all, This scheme does seem most sound for multiple reasons. It retains a kind of 'major version numbering backward compatibility' for user expectations and encodes the date as well.
Another way to make it less "wordy", apart from changing YYYY to YY, could be to drop the DD as well considering (normally) you never release twice in the same month. Also, continuing to add a ".0" suffix would satisfy the (legacy) expectation of "x.y.z" kind of version numbers too. If you really end up making some critical release in the same month as the previous one, the suffix becomes ".1". Just a suggestion. Regards, Satyam On Sat 15 Dec, 2018, 10:14 PM Rainer Gerhards <[email protected] wrote: > El sáb., 15 dic. 2018 a las 17:05, Michael Biebl via rsyslog > (<[email protected]>) escribió: > > > > Am Sa., 15. Dez. 2018 um 15:02 Uhr schrieb Michael Biebl < > [email protected]>: > > > > > > Am Sa., 15. Dez. 2018 um 13:20 Uhr schrieb Rainer Gerhards > > > <[email protected]>: > > > > Any concerns please let me know. > > > > > > Maybe interesting to you > https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/version_numbers/ > > > > > > This would translate to 8.YYYYMMDD in your case. > > > > > > Has the additional benefit, that should you decide to re-architect > > > rsyslog in a significant way, you can use > > > 9.YYYYMMDD > > > > > > If there is such a potential significant change in the future, there > > > is some value to it, if a user can quickly see this. > > > > One other benefit of keeping the 8. prefix would be, that should you > > ever decide to change the versioning scheme again, you haven't burned > > all version numbers up to 2018. > > That's indeed a very good argument. To avoid the long version string > we could also go 2-digit years and bump the "major" version on next > century change ;-) > > Thx for the feedback so far! > Rainer > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad > of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you > DON'T LIKE THAT. _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
