Like mentioned before, /etc/release might be a good idea. And it would also be nice if gnome's system monitor showed that name in the system information tab. I don't know however where gnome's system monitor gets that information. -- Jeroen Maris On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be>wrote:
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:26:00 +0100 Jeroen Maris <jamaris@gmail.com> wrote:
I think it would be wise to stay with the version numbering that we have right now, for example 2009.02 for the release coming this month. If any bug is found in the 2009.02-1 release, there can come a 2009.02-2 release, and so forth. The development versions for the 2009.02 series would be called 2009.02-alpha1, 2009.02-beta and 2009.02-rc, etcetera. The final version would be 2009.02-1.
This way we would never run out of version numbers, one can see in the blink of an eye when a release was made, and this way of version numbering is very consistent and logical. The only downside that I can find about this way of versioning is what Dieter Plaetinck said on 2 februari, that it could interfere with flyspray references, that need to be updated in case a release can't be made in a certain month.
-- Jeroen Maris
Maybe we if miss the right month (like we did now) we should just say "fuck it" and release it as 2009-01 anyway. Less confusion, no problems like beta's being released in january and finals in februari, no need to change references after date, etc.
Will people really care that much that in february we do a release called 2009-01 ? It would make everything a bit easier, so let's keep it simple!
That said, I like Dan's 'winter/summer' proposal. Technically there's the same problem because seasons switch on specific dates, but no-one will be too pedantic about that. (just like we shouldn't be with date based releases)
I think Abhishek explained it well (depend on nothing), but I think it's good to have some idea at which point in time/ along with which kernel version a release was done. We just shouldn't be 100% strict about it.
About the question which name we will pick, I'll find some online polling thing tonight if I have time and put the proposals on it. then we can vote. if we can't reach a consensus maybe we can just.. take the one I or Gerhard prefer :)) I don't even know how we will technically add the names to the release.. Aaron?
Dieter