[asterisk-users] Opinions on Release Numbering

[Steve Kennedy]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 02:10:54PM -0400, SIP wrote:

[snip]
> I think that using 1.5.x as the name for a release candidate for 1.6 is 
> pretty close to as unintuitive as it can possibly be.
> 1.6.Xrc-Y  is a strikingly MORE intuitive naming scheme for 1.6 release 
> candidates.

mutt uses the x.y convention where y is odd for a development branch and
y is odd for a release branch.

So 1.5 would be the development of 1.4 etc. When it's stable a 1.6 would
be released which would only have bug/security releases, any new features
etc would go into 1.7.


Steve

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