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I'm not sure that it would be less confusing to do that. Old kernels are still maintained too, so you'd have new releases like 2018.42 still happening in late 2
by jsight 8y ago
I'm not sure that it would be less confusing to do that. Old kernels are still maintained too, so you'd have new releases like 2018.42 still happening in late 2019. And then people would wonder why some server is running a "year old kernel" when exploits came out less than six months ago.
What's wrong with simple monotonically increasing digits?
- thanatropism 8y agoDot numbers are supposed to signify something. Were. Of course, modern software outside shrink-wrap context is evermore incremental and pushed to the customer in small deltas. Even Windows now tells me it's a "service and regular updates are normal procedure". But look at Chrome is on like version 70 in the few years it has been hanging around. If there aren't going to be major discontinuous versions this is the way to go.
- Someone1234 8y agoExactly. For a real world example, Ubuntu's current LTS release 18.04 is running Linux Kernel 4.15 (released Jan-2018). Using a year version format it would be Linux 2015.15. A lot of less technical people and fake security "experts" are going to freak out about a "2015" kernel. In general people seem less interested in how something is, than how something appears. That's why most companies still insist on password complexity rules and disable pasting to password fields, because it FEELS safer.
- Max_aaa 8y agoWhat about using a format like: [Year of Initial Release].[Year of incremental release].[week of incremental release].[Incremental Number] So: 2017.2018.39.332