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Re: Dropping the .0 on release numbers?



On 15/09/2010 16:27, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> 
> I was thinking about this overnight, and I think dropping .0 does 
> actually make a lot of sense for marketing/publicity purposes.  A 
> release announcement along the lines of "The Debian project is proud
> to announce the release of version 6 of the Debian operating system"
> seems a bit cleaner/professional than the same statement with 6.0
> instead of 6.
> 

You forgot the argument about “stability”, which is as pertinent as
“professional” and “clean”, imho.

Regards,

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