Adopting Ubuntu-like date versioning was one proposal but not the one they ultimately went with. They instead went with a major version for every release like C

Adopting Ubuntu-like date versioning was one proposal but not the one they ultimately went with. They instead went with a major version for every release like Chrome or Firefox. I think moving to a time based release was a good move but a major version per LTS might have reduced a lot of the apprehension around it.