<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 5, 2016, at 12:07 PM, Hans Wennborg via cfe-dev <<a href="mailto:cfe-dev@lists.llvm.org" class="">cfe-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Renato Golin <</span><a href="mailto:renato.golin@linaro.org" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">renato.golin@linaro.org</a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">> wrote:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">On 5 December 2016 at 19:56, Hans Wennborg <<a href="mailto:hans@chromium.org" class="">hans@chromium.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I'd like to avoid 4.1 because of the potential for confusion about<br class="">whether it's a major release (as it would have been under the old<br class="">scheme) or a patch release.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">But if the versioning scheme is different, users will have to<br class="">understand what it means anyway.<br class=""><br class="">Until now we had a weird and very unique logic, and we're moving to a<br class="">more sensible logic, because it's similar to what some other projects<br class="">are doing.<br class=""><br class="">I can see as much confusion from 4.0.1 -> 5.0.0 than by having a 4.1<br class="">that used to be weird before.<br class=""><br class="">After a few releases everything will be clear anyway... I really don't<br class="">want to make the foreseeable future weird again to avoid a potential<br class="">misunderstanding for one or two releases.<br class=""><br class="">Let's just be brutally clear in all release communications and<br class="">hopefully people will understand.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">The alternative would be:<br class=""><br class="">3.9.0<br class="">3.9.1<br class="">4.0.0<br class="">4.1.0 <-- Can't tell from the version number what kind of release this is.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">No, that has a redundant zero, too.<br class=""><br class="">The alternative is:<br class=""><br class="">3.9.0<br class="">3.9.1<br class="">4.0<br class="">4.1<br class="">5.0<br class="">5.1<br class=""></blockquote><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I'm worried that users will, with some reason, think that the 4.1 and</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">5.1 releases are the same kind as 2.1 and 3.1 :-/</span></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>+1, I haven’t seen yet the downside of keeping the minor to 0 and bumping only the patch number.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>— </div><div>Mehdi</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>