Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (465 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Jaeger wrote:

> On Saturday 03 July 2010 11:02:17 Per Jessen wrote:
> > [...]
> > What is wrong with the existing scheme?  Two things that come to
> > mind:
> >
> > 1) it's just a continuation of the SuSE Linux numbering
> > 2) there's no implied meaning of '.x'
>
> 3) The x.y has a meaning in software and we do not leave to it.  The
> changes between 10.3 and 11.0 are as big as between 11.0 and 11.1. 
> The number 11.0 is marketing and has no other effect!
> I've seen books for openSUSE 11 - implying that 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
> have only minor difference.

Which is really a problem with what we put into openSUSE rather than a
problem with the versioning scheme :-)  I.e. when we're planning a
dot-release, it should not have any major changes to the base system. 


-- 
Per Jessen, Zürich (22.3°C)

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