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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 10:26:40 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing,
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Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 3 May 2018 at 10:07, Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 <berrange@redhat.com> wrote=
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> On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 08:21:00AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> I don't see an issue with time-based numbering schemes.  Ubuntu made it
>> popular and other projects (like DPDK) are doing the same thing now.
>>
>> The convention is YY.MM though, not YYMM.
>
> It feels like we've got quite a strong backing for time based versioning
> amongst people replying here. I'd be happy with YY.MM

I'm not hugely in favour mostly because I don't much like
changing version numbering formats -- does it really gain
us anything? But I guess it's a bit of a bikeshed-colour question.

thanks
-- PMM