Version numbers should be... numbers

Posted Jul 4, 2019 12:46 UTC (Thu) by shane (subscriber, #3335)
In reply to: Version numbers should be... numbers by joib
Parent article: Debian and code names

I agree with the year versioning, basically, for the reasons you mention (schedule slip, and so on). The only corner case might be if a release was planned for January and by miracle it was ready in December, which seems unlikely. 😉

One minor tweak would be use something like "2019.update1" or the like, to make clear that it is not referring to a month number (I might be confused if I saw "2018.5" come out in 2020).