Albert ARIBAUD wrote: > Ben Warren a écrit : >> Kumar Gala wrote: >>> 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 >>> >> I vote for this one, but starting at v2. > > Just one thing: Verson numbering can be anything you want, but I think > it should be self-consistent. And on that account, I realize that the > "v1" part has no real meaning wrt to the rest of the version string, > which date-related -- unless there is a plan to have simultaneous v1 > and v2 releases, in which case it makes sense to have "v1". > > Amicalement, Yes, in this case the meaning of 'v2' is "new version naming scheme", not "new software version". It probably is superfluous.
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