[josm-dev] Next release end of February: status update

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 17:51, André Riedel <riedel.andre at gmail.com> wrote:
>> For all others I prefer feature based version numbers where a change
>> in the major part indicates substantial and potentially disruptive
>> changes like a new API version or a completely new UI or so.  Or,
>> maybe a switch from Java to Perl. ;-)
> +1

As a user my only interaction with version numbers has been trying to
correlate the SVN version with release dates because I've been trying
to find out if some bug correlates with a JOSM SVN ID when I know the
bug was fixed in say November 2009.

Ubuntu-style revision numbers with $year.$month would be helpful in
this case but not the proposed $year.$increment. Of course that would
mean patch releases would have to be $year.$month.$increment, e.g.
10.2.1 or 10.2.2.

And on that topic I'd like my bike sheds to be orange :)