On Tuesday 06 July 2010 16:18:19 Greg Freemyer wrote:
As to the comment on the wiki that SLES numbers are too easily confused with openSUSE version numbers, I'm not sure that's an openSUSE issue per se. Who's impacted by the confusion.
It's one of my pain points when I see messages speaking about SUSE 11.1 - and asking back, it's about SLES 11 or SLES 11 SP1 ;-(. I've seen it too often. So, because of my pain points, I'd like to have a good versioning scheme. Currently we have *no scheme*: We use major.minor without any meaning besides marketing. major gets increased whenever somebody feels like it but there's no documented way of increasing it. There's nothing in 11.x that stays the same: Neither branding, base system, installation etc. NOTHING that cannot be touched between 11.x and 11.x+1. And that's completely different from expectations by software developers. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126