[Mageia-discuss] Wish List

[F Janssens]

>As to the Cauldron, dev etc. versions, then it could very well be a more
>descriptive numbering system based on day/month/year (the metric date
>format) Mageia09022010. This could then be our "dev" and "internal"
>numbering system. We would, of course, promote the fact, that our
>develop system dating and numbering system would follow the long
established metric formats.


If date formats are to be used, I would prefer the iso-8601 date format :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
A summary of the international standard date and time notation

so :
Mageia20100209
or
Mageia2010-02-09