On Aug 1, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to get your general opinion about changing the U-Boot > version numbering scheme. > > To be honest, I never really understood myself how this is supposed > to work and if the next version should be 1.3.4 or 1.4.0 or 2.0.0, i. > e. which changes / additions are important enough to increment the > PATCHLEVEL or even VERSION number. > > I therefor suggest to drop this style of version numbering and change > to a timestamp based version number system which has been quite > successfully used by other projects (like Ubuntu) or is under > discussion (for Linux). > > My suggestion for the new version numbers is as follows: > > VERSION = 1 (at least for the time being) > > PATCHLEVEL = current year - 2000 > > SUBLEVEL = current month > > Both PATCHLEVEL and SUBLEVEL shall always be 2 digits (at least for > the next 91+ years to come) so listings for example on an FTP server > shall be in a sane sorting order. > > If we accept this system, the next release which probably comes out > in October 2008 would be v1.08.10, and assuming the one after that > comes out in January 2009 would be named v1.09.01
If we go to date based versions. I'd prefer we keep year as 4 digits: v1.2008.10 v1.2009.01 It just seems easier to me at a visual level when I look at try and compare versions. - k ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ U-Boot-Users mailing list U-Boot-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users