Re: [libvirt] Switch to a time based version number rule

On Mon, 2016-06-13 at 13:56 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > I venture to suggest that the reasons for switching from feature to > time based release schedules, also apply to version numbers. IOW we > should switch to a time based version number change rule, instead of > a feature based version number change rule. >  >  > So what I'm suggesting is that we adopt the following rule >  >  - major: bumped for the first release of each year >  - minor: bumped for every major release >  - micro: bumped for stable branch releases I don't like this. A widely used convention is to bump major when breaking backwards compatibility, minor when adding features in a backwards-compatible way, and micro when fixing bugs that don't alter the interface. Releasing a 2.0.0 would read, for many, as we had just broken API / ABI compatibility.