Re: [atomic-devel] CentOS Atomic Host tree numbering is inconsistent

[Jason Brooks <jbrooks redhat com>]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Josh Berkus <jberkus redhat com> wrote:
> On 06/19/2017 11:20 AM, Jason Brooks wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Josh Berkus <jberkus redhat com> wrote:
>>> Jason, KB, etc.:
>>>
>>> This is the beginning of last month's announcement:
>>>
>>> An updated version of [CentOS Atomic
>>> Host](https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Atomic/Download)
>>> (tree version 7.20170428), is
>>> now available ...
>>>
>>> And this is this month's:
>>>
>>> An updated version of CentOS Atomic Host (tree version 7.1705), is now
>>> available[1]. CentOS Atomic Host is a lean operating system designed to
>>> run ...
>>>
>>> See the problem here?  How is a user supposed to keep track of upgrades?
>>
>> We did change the versioning, I should have mentioned it in the message.
>>
>> It's not inconsistent, though, in that both are date-based, the last
>> indicates Apr 2017, this one indicates May 2017. We talked about this
>> in our last SIG meeting -- the rest of centos revs monthly, with this
>> same major-version.YYMM scheme, and we've switched to that scheme for
>> CentOS Atomic.
>>
>> Our images have actually carried this 1705, 1704, 1703 number for
>> quite a while now, and this should make it easier for users to match
>> up images with the version of the tree they contain.
>
> OK.  Mind writing a para on this for the blog post?

Will do

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