[U-Boot-Users] RFC: U-Boot version numbering

[ksi at koi8.net]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

That is fine but I suggest changing version to 2. If we keep it at 1 it will
be confusing because we do already have a bunch of 1.xx.xx releases. Other
than that I agree.

> Hello,
>
> I would like to get your general opinion about  changing  the  U-Boot
> version numbering scheme.
>
> To be honest, I never really understood myself how this  is  supposed
> to work and if the next version should be 1.3.4 or 1.4.0 or 2.0.0, i.
> e.  which  changes  / additions are important enough to increment the
> PATCHLEVEL or even VERSION number.
>
> I therefor suggest to drop this style of version numbering and change
> to a timestamp based version  number  system  which  has  been  quite
> successfully  used  by  other  projects  (like  Ubuntu)  or  is under
> discussion (for Linux).
>
> My suggestion for the new version numbers is as follows:
>
> VERSION = 1	(at least for the time being)
>
> PATCHLEVEL = current year - 2000
>
> SUBLEVEL = current month
>
> Both PATCHLEVEL and SUBLEVEL shall always be 2 digits (at  least  for
> the  next 91+ years to come) so listings for example on an FTP server
> shall be in a sane sorting order.
>
> If we accept this system, the next release which probably comes out
> in October 2008 would be v1.08.10, and assuming the one after that
> comes out in January 2009 would be named v1.09.01
>
> Comments?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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