This makes a lot of sense. Thanks!
- Ken
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Loic Dachary" <loic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Sage Weil" <sweil@xxxxxxxxxx>, ceph-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ceph-users@xxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, May 4, 2015 11:18:35 AM
> Subject: Re: The first infernalis dev release will be v9.0.0
>
> +1 ;-)
>
> On 04/05/2015 18:09, Sage Weil wrote:
> > The first Ceph release back in Jan of 2008 was 0.1. That made sense at
> > the time. We haven't revised the versioning scheme since then, however,
> > and are now at 0.94.1 (first Hammer point release). To avoid reaching
> > 0.99 (and 0.100 or 1.00?) we have a new strategy. This was discussed a
> > bit on ceph-devel and in #ceph-devel and there doesn't appear to be any
> > scheme that everyone likes.
> >
> > So, we're going to go with something that only a few people dislike:
> >
> > x.0.z - development releases (for early testers and the brave at heart)
> > x.1.z - release candidates (for test clusters, brave users)
> > x.2.z - stable/bugfix releases (for users)
> >
> > x will start at 9 for Infernalis ("I" is the 9th letter), making our first
> > development release of the 9th release cycle 9.0.0. Subsequent
> > development releases will be 9.0.1, 9.0.2, etc.
> >
> > In a couple months we'll have a 9.1.0 (and maybe 9.1.1) release candidate.
> >
> > A few weeks after that we'll have the Infernalis release 9.2.0, followed
> > by stable bug fix updates 9.2.1, 9.2.2, etc., and then begin work on the
> > Jewel (10.y.z) release.
> >
> > We'll see how this works out. We can adjust this in the future to any
> > other 9.y.z scheme (e.g., 9.1, 9.2 etc dev releases and 9.8.z stable
> > releases); the main commitment here is to the 9 part, indicating
> > Infernalis is the 9th major release cycle.
> >
> > Onward!
> > sage
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> Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre
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