Subject: Maxima 5.21 release branch scheduled for April 1
From: Aleksej Saushev
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:19:33 +0300
Andrej Vodopivec <andrej.vodopivec at gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> time for the customary 1-month warning.
>> I'm planning to make a release branch for Maxima 5.21
>> on April 1 or shortly thereafter, with a stable release to
>> follow within a few weeks.
>> If there is some stuff you develpers want to get into
>> the next release, now is the time to do it.
>
> Since Maxima has time based releases it would maybe make sense if the
> version number reflected this. I propose to change the version scheme
> to Year.Month.Version. The next version could be 10.4.0, 10.4.1,...
> and the version in August 10.8.0, 10.8.1 and so on.
No, don't. This is pointless and doesn't simplify anything.
(BTW, "Year.Month.Version" means that the next version is "2010.04.something",
where "something" is more than 21, if it is positive integer.)
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