[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-sysadm] [496] update version in Makefile

[Dexter Morgan]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Maarten Vanraes
<maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Op donderdag 10 februari 2011 10:34:48 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
>> Le jeudi 10 février 2011 10:15:59, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
>> > On 9 February 2011 21:52,  <root at mageia.org> wrote:
>> > > update version in Makefile
>> > >
>> > > Modified Paths
>> > >
>> > > drakx/trunk/advertising/Makefile
>> > >
>> > > Modified: drakx/trunk/advertising/Makefile
>> > > ===================================================================
>> > > --- drakx/trunk/advertising/Makefile      2011-02-09 20:24:08 UTC (rev 495)
>> > > +++ drakx/trunk/advertising/Makefile      2011-02-09 20:52:01 UTC (rev 496)
>> > > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>> > > -VERSION = 2011.0
>> > > +VERSION = 1
>> > >
>> > >  PRODUCT = drakx-installer-advertising
>> >
>> > I don't know if that has already been discussed somewhere (at least
>> > I didn't remember it), since the "year.month" scheme is widely used
>> > (mandriva, ubuntu, phoronix, ...), why not stick with it?
>> >
>> > on the other hand, "traditionnal" versioning is used by FC, Debian so
>> > I don't have strong opinion about any of these.
>> > WDYT?
>>
>> I saw no public discussion about it (maybe in a meeting for which I didn't
>> read the logs). I like having the year in release version, but I infered
>> from what I saw that version 1 seems to be what has been chosen. However,
>> that may be to late to discuss since the alpha is due in 5 days from now.
>>
>> Samuel
>
> i was under the opinion that people said "Release 1" as a temporary measure,
> until the discussion had been settled...
>
> i too prefer the year in the release, makes it easier to remember.
>

i hardly see how this is easier to remember.
I really like the way fedora does F14, F15, ...


but this is just my opinion :)