[m-rev.] review: document new release naming scheme and announce 10.04 beta release

[Paul Bone]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 01:12:14PM +1100, Peter Ross wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Paul Bone <pbone at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 12:34:36PM +1100, Peter Ross wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've made available the 10.04-beta release at petdr at neptune:~/10.04-beta
> >> It includes the index.html file.
> >>
> >
> > Just some initial feedback.
> >
> > We had a discussion in the office about not bothering with the extra 0 in
> > versions such as 10.04, making them 10.4 instead.  I don't remember there being
> > any serious objections.  I think someone, playing devil's advocate, said that with
> > the 0 the versions would line up when printed in a fixed-width font.
> >
> I think the biggest reason is for ls to list the files in the order
> that they were released
> 
> 10.12 will come be 10.4 while 10.04 will come before 10.12

Okay, I can agree with that, it maintains lexographical order.


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