Samba 4.10 or 5.0

[Rowland Penny]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 09:37:32 -0700
Jeremy Allison via samba-technical <samba-technical at lists.samba.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 09:22:41AM +0200, Stefan Metzmacher via
> samba-technical wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > we're going to branch 4.9.0rc1 soon.
> > 
> > We should decide if we want to continue with 4.10 or 5.0?
> > 
> > I think we should not put too much into version number,
> > similar to the linux kernel and just have a limit on the minor
> > version and handle a major version just as a number change.
> > 
> > So I'd propose with 5.0.
> > 
> > What does others think?
> 
> Everyone else seems to like it :-). I'm old enough
> to remember moving a major version only when we had
> significant new features, but I guess that makes me
> the old fuddy-duddy :-).
> 
> But if it's a vote, -1 from me :-).
> 
> Jeremy.
> 

No, I am the old fuddy-duddy here 
You are just a youngster ;-)

The problem (if it is a problem) is that we would go from version
numbers like 4.X.xx to 4.XX.xx if we stuck with major version 4, this
could be confusing, so I would prefer 5.0.0

Rowland