OS versioning

[Erik Garrison]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:32:11PM -0700, david at lang.hm wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, victor wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:18:47 +0100
>> From: victor <Victor.Lazzarini at nuim.ie>
>> To: devel at lists.laptop.org
>> Subject: OS versioning
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I was trying to find the correct info on OS versioning in the wiki, but
>> could not. So perhaps you can enlighten me?
>>
>> 1.Why version 8.* ?
>
> 2008

right.

>
>> 2.Last release was 8.1, we are going towards 8.2, I see that, but
>> was 8.1 FC7-based or FC8? Is 8.2 FC9-based?
>
> I think 8.1 was FC7 based and 8.2 will be FC9
>

This is correct but the real reason is that these are the first (8.1)
and second (8.2) releases of the year.  I do not believe there are plans
to make an 8.3.  This corresponds roughly with a six-month realease
cycle.

>> 3. How are olpc-2 and olpc-3 (the names of distros in
>> Koji) related to OS versions?
>
> don't know this one
>
>> 4. How do build numbers, stable/joyride, relate to OS versions?
>
> they don't directly.
>

In all kinds of ways.

8.1 -> 703 -> ECO 4
8.1.1 -> 708 -> ECO 5
8.1.2 -> 711 -> ECO 6

Best,
Erik