[Dev] Milestone/alpha/version numbering

[Reid Ellis]

On Wed Feb 22 2006, at 17:02, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
> Finally the suggestion for new milestone (or maybe we should now  
> say alpha) numbering, and also the numbering of development  
> versions in between...
>
> Alpha releases, in order of preference:
>
> 1) 0.7alpha1
> 2) 0.7.alpha1
> 3) 0.7a1
> 4) 0.7.a1

+1 on #1

[..]
> My suggestion (well, credit for this goes really to pje) is that we  
> append ".dev-rXXXX" (without the quotes, replace XXXX with  
> Subversion rev number) to the alpha release number we are currently  
> working towards. So 0.7alpha1.dev-r1111 < 0.7alpha1.dev-r2222 <  
> 0.7alpha1 < 0.7alpha2.dev-r3333 < 0.7 < 0.8alpha1-r4444 < ...

+1 on 0.7alpha1.dev-r1111

Reid