On 13 Jan 2024 15:58, Karl Berry wrote: > Another alternative: when this came up 30-odd years ago, rms changed the > GNU maintainers doc to suggest x.y.90, .91, etc. for pretests. Doing > that would at least have the benefit of following a recommendation, and > as a side effect, would also fix jami's assumption (poor practice though > it is, IMHO). > https://gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Test-Releases.html#Test-Releases > > Doing an ls -R on alpha (fp:/srv/data/ftp-mirror/alpha/gnu), it seems > (rough guess with some grep counting) the .90 convention is by far the > most common approach (a couple thousand), followed by the suffix letter > a la automake (~750 releases), followed by -rc (~360). -hexid and -date > are both trailing the field. Other random conventions also present. > > It all feels like bikeshedding to me, so my inclination is to do > nothing. If we do change, I think we should use .90. --best, karl.
using .90 is certainly better than single-letters. if you're fine with it, then let's switch. i cut more inline responses to avoid further bikeshedding on the topic. we can agree to disagree. -mike
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