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From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Releng
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 03:40:07
Message-Id: 20031209094012.GA3799@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Releng by Matt Thrailkill
1 On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:10:48AM -0800, Matt Thrailkill wrote:
2 > Versions named by year? Thats always been a pet peeve I had with other
3 > programs... is this now set in stone for Gentoo?
4
5 Adam Scheinberg [1] wrote in his editorial [2] that, and I quote:
6
7 """
8 Gentoo Linux just changed their release engineering guide specs to
9 include for a year number with subsequent point releases. This, I
10 think, is the right idea. I
11 """
12
13 Just as an informational sidenote of course :)
14
15 Wkr,
16 Sven Vermeulen
17
18 [1] http://www.osnews.com/editor.php?editors_id=6
19 [2] http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5354
20
21 --
22 ^__^ And Larry saw that it was Good.
23 (oo) Sven Vermeulen
24 (__) http://www.gentoo.org Documentation & PR