Build Debate: Followup on Build Naming

[Gary C Martin]

Well, if this is a democracy, of sorts, I'll stick my neck out and  
vote to stick with a release-703, or official-703, kind'a format. I  
just really, really dislike dates floating into version naming (and  
even worse product naming - where the goal is to make you feel out of  
date in time for the next hard sell). Also avoids all that, "so whose  
calendar format/locale are we going to use in the name", "what's so  
magical about the end of a year that we get a whole new number to  
release", and "so what specific release version number did go out in  
the April-2008 build?"

Gary

On 8 Apr 2008, at 01:37, Michael Stone wrote:

> cjb, cscott, and I just chatted about build names. We have  
> absolutely no
> problem announcing official-703 (when candidate-703 becomes official)
> under whatever name seems good but we have no consensus about what  
> that
> name should be. cscott proposes '8.1' on the basis that it will be our
> first 2008 release. mstone thought we should bake a month into the  
> name
> (perhaps 2008.04 or April-2008). Scott strongly preferred to avoid
> baking a month designator into the name because, as best I understand,
> he thinks we cannot afford to ship another release until we've made
> 'enough' improvement in at least one of our (approximately) four
> networking scenarios.
>
> Please correct and debate,
>
> Michael
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