Version Number of Upcoming Release

[Téo Mrnjavac]

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:38, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
>> I was wondering what version number we should use for the upcoming
>> Amarok release. Originally, the plan was to call it "2.2.3". I still
>> think that's completely fine from a developer's perspective (because
>> with Git, any release really just becomes a snapshot, more or less).
>> But maybe this would be a good chance to gather some extra PR, for
>> free.
>>
>> We could simply call it "2.3", as this release sports a number of
>> important changes. Most visibly that would be the toolbar, which looks
>> very different from older versions. So I think we could justify the
>> version jump, especially because it really is "just a name":
>>
>> Whatever we change this version string to, be it "2.2.3", "2.3",
>> "WISTA Ultimate Edition", etc, it's basically just a name anyway. We
>> could simply go to "2.3", without causing a huge work overhead.
>> Everything else would stay as it is now (same splash screen, same
>> everything). So, if this can get us some extra PR, methinks, we might
>> as well use this chance :)
>>
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> So, does anyone else have opinions on this? Can we reach a consensus?
>
Both 2.3 and 2.2.3 are fine for me, I'm leaning a bit towards 2.3
since it might be good for marketing.