[kde-promo] Plasma Next Naming - Take 2

[Michael Jansen]

On Tuesday 28 January 2014 12:06:27 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 January 2014 11:50:34 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org> 
wrote:
> > > What we should consider when using such a numbering scheme is that it
> > > also
> > > works with beta releases of Plasma Next. If we kind of stick to what we
> > > use
> > > today it could be.
> > > 2014.06-90 for the beta release of Plasma Next with the last stable
> > > release
> > > having been in June 2014.
> > 
> > How about simply adding "beta1"? Eg. "2014.06-beta1" or "2014.06.rc1"
> > 
> > Plain and simple.
> 
> Is it? It makes everything more difficult as it's alpha-numeric instead of
> just numeric and with such a scheme I would assume that it is the beta for
> June 2014 release. Thus the release 2014.06 would have a smaller version
> number than the beta release.
> 
> 2014.06 < 2014.06-rc3
> 2014.06-0 < 2014.06-rc3
> 2014.06-final < 2014.06-rc3
> 
> etc.
> 
> And as already discussed using the date of the final release in pre-releases
> is dangerous.

Whatever you guys decide to use. It would be nice if it would be compatible to 

http://semver.org/

This is the only attempt to standardize versions i know of. And remember. I 
said NICE.

Mike

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