On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 04:24:37PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 05:20:52PM +0100, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> > Instead of burying the version numbering details under "Download QEMU"
> > page, place it in its own document. And highlight its presence in the
> > website footer.
>
> I'm not sure I agree with saying it is "buried" on the download page.
True. I exaggerated a bit there; sorry.
> It is pretty clearly visible, and it is relevant information at the
> time you are downloading. If anything, moving it off into a separate
> page /is/ burying it IMHO, as now its not visible at time of download
Your argument is valid, and at first I actually did think the way
describe. Then I remembered how I recently was trying to look up the
versioning details of QEMU and not finding it. Not sure what terms I
used at that time.
Right now, typing "qemu version numbering" (*without* quotes) does show
the "Download QEMU" page as third result. And the first result points
to this page:
https://www.qemu.org/2018/08/15/qemu-3-0-0/
Which does have:
A note from the maintainer: Why 3.0? Well, we felt that our version
numbers were getting a bit unwieldy, and since this year is QEMU’s
15th birthday it seemed like a good excuse to roll over the major
digit. Going forward we plan to increment the major version once a
year, for the first release of the year. Don’t read too much into
it: it doesn’t imply a drastic compatibility break.
So, I tend to agree with what you said, so feel free to disregard this
change, then. :-)
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/kashyap
