[Dev] Milestone numbering going forward

[Davor Cubranic]

Ted Leung wrote:

> The only projects that I am aware of that use milestones are Eclipse 
> and Mozilla.  The Eclipse folks use a number scheme similar to the one 
> being proposed (see <http://eclipse.org/downloads/>).  They also use a 
> datestamped nightly build.   I wasn't able to find any milestone 
> builds off of Mozilla.org at all, but I did find the nightlies 
> <http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/>.
>
I agree: coming from Mozilla and Eclipse worlds, I found the backwards 
numbering of milestones very confusing. Also, I thought the micro 
version numbers are quite widely used to denote bugfix releases. So 
personally, FWIW, I'm +1 on the proposed scheme.

Then there is the whole issue of odd vs. even minor version numbers to 
denote experimental vs. stable releases, but that's really a post-1.0 
issue. :-)

Davor