[Mageia-discuss] Wish List

[Remco Rijnders]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 09:07:16AM -0400, andré wrote:
>>> How about instead of using 0 or 1, use the month number instead? So, .3
>>> for a release made in March. That way we are always "up to date" and can
>>> allow for release schedules slipping or having a 3rd release within a year
>>> if needed / fitting.
>>>      
>> Such versioning is bad. It forces you into time limit like it is with Ubuntu. And i don't
>> like it. When the release needs to be delayed it's better to do so. Not to push it out and
>> then land loads of fixes on it like has happened to Ubuntu. Also you don't have to remember
>> which month it was released in year 2008. Was it 2008.3 or 2008.5?
>>    
> It is a lot simpler to use 0 or 1.
> If the month is used, and there is a delay for some reason, would you  
> want to have to change the names of 100's of files ?
> Including the dependancies in the RPM's ?
> Otherwise, the month would have no more meaning than 0 or 1.

I don't see why you'd want to put the release name in the name of a RPM
anyway.

> And why would you want 3 releases in a year ?  With the pace of changes  
> in Linux, 2 seems just right.  If there are any important updates, for  
> security, for instance, that is already built into the Mandriva system  
> we are inheriting (like virtually all others).

I don't think it is too unlikely to have a December scheduled release
slipping to January. What do you do in that event?o

Remco
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