22 Sep
2020
22 Sep
'20
9:41 a.m.
On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 08:58:40 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Actually, following GNOME3.38 will be GNOME 40. "After nearly 10 years of 3.x releases, the minor version number is getting unwieldy.'
I’ve long had this idea that version number increases that reflect major changes should go more along exponential lines. Simple linear changes tend to lose their impact as the numbers get larger, e.g. going from version 2 to version 3 sounds pretty major, but going from version 8 to version 9 less so. But if you use, say, a Fibonacci series, then the major version jumps would be 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 ... and the in-between numbers could be used for less far-reaching changes.