Hi Donald

I was just curious to know if the date per se is needed. Why not have the
month and year alone

Thanks
  Balaji
On Feb 18, 2016 12:03 AM, "Donald Sharp" <sha...@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:
>
> Balaji -
>
> I'm a bit confused by your comment.  I have proposed putting a date in
the version.  The date of the release would be come the bugfix level.
>
> So if I were to release something today it would become:
>
> 1.0.20160217
>
> If I were to release a minor release based tomorrow the version would be:
>
> 1.1.20160218
>
> If I were to release a bug fix to the minor release in 2 days:
>
> 1.1.20160219
>
>
> donald
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Balaji Gurudoss <balaji...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>> 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" <ja...@atcorp.com> 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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