Re: Let's consider using year based release identifiers [was: Re: getting rid of "testing"]

[Tomas Pospisek <tpo2@sourcepole.ch>]

Am 29.06.19 um 15:28 schrieb Andrey Rahmatullin:
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 01:53:35PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
>> TLDR; year based release identifiers should be prefered since they are
>> much more intuitive to reason about than codenames and sequentialy
>> numbered release identifiers.
>>
>> If Debian should improve/change release identifiers, then I'd suggest to
>> ponder a year based versioning scheme (as Ubuntu is using).
> This only works with Ubuntu because they set the release date in advance.

You assign the year to the release identifier when the release is ready:
release_id = now().year(). There's certainly some infrastructure stuff
that needs that release_id that needs to be prepared in advance, but I
think that can be done pragmatically, when the release is "99%" ready.
Am I missing something?
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