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Marco van de Voort wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 01:38:06PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
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<pre wrap="">2009/11/29 Marco van de Voort <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:marcov@stack.nl"><marcov@stack.nl></a>:
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<pre wrap="">The serious users will consider the current restrained version policy as
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Personally, if we are going to approach this marketing driven, I'm more in
favour of the slackware approach (as they did when they jumped from 3.6 to
7).
its a clear policy (a new release always has the major release number of the
competition +1), and a suffix in case there is no new competitor release.
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Heck, why not just January release, version 'Year', followed by a July
release, version 'Year.5' ?<br>
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Year.5 being bug fixes for Year, and each new next Year being trunk?<br>
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Wash, rinse, repeat for each year of existence?<br>
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At least it will put this kind of nonsensical discussions to rest (which is
exactly why Patrick did this)
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