Hi folks,
now that we have a git repository [1] ready (thanks Stefan!), I've visited again the flashrom development guidelines [2]. I stumbled there over a very long, exemplary version number: "0.9.10.1". IMHO, two things are wrong here: 1st there are too many dots for my taste, and 2nd the former two numbers are meaningless.
To avert that, I call for naming the next release "1.0". If necessary it would get point releases "1.0.1", "1.0.2" etc, of course.
Regarding the naming of release tags and branches, I really like what the Linux people do. In their naming scheme the tag for "1.0" would be named `v1.0` and the branch `flashrom-1.0.y`. With different pre- fixes for tags/branches it's always obvious what is referred to, and with a wildcard (here the `y`) in the branch name the ongoing develop- ment is emphasized.
Opinions? other proposals?
Nico
[1] https://www.flashrom.org/git/flashrom.git/ [2] https://www.flashrom.org/Development_Guidelines