Re: 10.0

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> Wasn't there some controversy about switching to major.minor versioning
> this in -advocacy?
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> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ee13fd2bb44cb086b457be34e81d5f78@biglumber.com

I proposed in that thread that we always increment the first number,
never increment the second number, and increment the third exactly as we do
now for bugfix releases.

I think moving to a two-number format is a mistake: what exactly will
PQserverVersion() return in that case? But I understand people have a hard
time swallowing the "never change the middle number" portion of this idea.

Thus, here's a slight variation on that theme: what if we simply reversed the
expectations of bumping the first number, and put the onus on people to
change the *middle* number? Thus, the next release by default will be 10.0.0,
the one after that will be by default 11.0.0, and so on. We can reserve the
middle number for "lesser" releases - which may never happen - but at least
we will have a mechanism to provide for them. So rather than the current spate
of messages like this:

"This should be called 12.0 because of cool feature X and reason Y"

we would get the rare message like this:

"We don't really have much for this release, maybe it should just be 11.1?"

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