Re: 10.0

On 20/06/2016 22:41, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 4:00 PM, David G. Johnston
>>> <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>>> 10.x is the desired output.
>>
>>> 10.x is the output that some people desire. A significant number of
>>> people, including me, would prefer to stick with the current
>>> three-part versioning scheme, possibly with some change to the
>>> algorithm for bumping the first digit (e.g. every 5 years like
>>> clockwork).
>>
>> If we were going to do it like that, I would argue for "every ten years
>> like clockwork", e.g. 10.0.x is next after 9.9.x. But in point of fact,
>> Robert, you already made your case for that approach and nobody else
>> cared for it.
>
> I voted for this approach initially too, and I think it has merit --
> notably, that it would stop this discussion. It was said that moving
> to two-part numbers would stop all discussion, but it seems to have had
> exactly the opposite effect.

If voting is still possible, then I agree: no changes please!
It won't make things easier to have a 10g or a 10.8 to explain, instead
of a 10.0.8... and I'm not sure it'll make things easier to not have the
chance to bump the 2 major parts if it happened to be interesting in the
future like it was for 7.4->8 and 8.4->9 (9 is «new», it's the first
time we go over .4 to bump first digit, but it's also the first time we
have found a way to shorten release cycle)

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