Agreed. The date doesn't need to be in the build #, and only makes it longer.<br>And I don't know how meaningful it is to have a build named "OLPC" -- as noted a few times, we are building more than one thing. If anything, that should be a clarifier at the end noting that OLPC was the 'customizer' of the build.<br>
<br>SJ<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Aaron Konstam <<a href="mailto:akonstam@sbcglobal.net">akonstam@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 10:32 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:<br>
> On Thursday 10 April 2008, Charles Merriam wrote:<br>
> > > Thanks for formalising this, I would also strongly suggest that the<br>
> > > organisation is moved to the far right, and that we get rid of year.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > <component> <major> <minor> <bugfix> <organisation><br>
> ><br>
> > I strongly suggest we keep the year.<br>
> ><br>
> > Yes, really, OLPC should release new software at least once per year.<br>
> > It should dump support for software two or more years old. It should<br>
> > release based on time, not feature.<br>
> ><br>
> > Also, why add a minor-minor (bugfix) number?<br>
> I strongly feel that we should not put the year in releases.<br>
><br>
> I personally think that we should use<br>
> OLPC-<Version>.<bugfix> for the os<br>
> so what has previously been called update.1 should be OLPC-2.0<br>
><br>
> any bug fixes based on this would be OLPC-2.1 etc<br>
><br>
> Dennis<br>
</div></div>The question is really would the date be information that is useful. I<br>
am not sure. My feeling is that at the rate things are going with<br>
development it would not. Who cares for example if f8 came out in 2007<br>
or 2008 and why would that be important information?<br>
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