[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on : > 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.
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