Proposed release naming guidance from Marketing Committee

[FiniteStateGit]

The Marketing Committee submits the following message for Sig-Release's review:

Release Naming Guidance

The use of 'major' and 'point' to describe the type of release is optional, but approved, for shorthand/non-technical descriptions.

Example: ...the last major release...
Example: ...an upcoming point release...

A major release follows the format:
<Last two digits of year>.<Last two digits of month>.<Versioning digit = 0>
A point release re-uses the year and month of the previous major release and increments the versioning digit by one.

Example: A major release in June 2025 would be named 25.06.0
Example: A point release in July 2025 would be named 25.06.1
Example: A second point release in January 2026 would be named 25.06.2
Example: A major release in January 2026 would be named 26.01.0

A major release can be referred to in non-technical descriptions without the versioning digit.

Example: 25.06, in general, would refer to a major release from June 2025.

The marketing committee recommends that friendly names are not used for releases.

[Ulrick28]

During 1/25 Technical Steering Committee (TSC) meeting, the TSC gave approval for this proposal, though would like SIG-Release to still vote on the topic.

[tonybalandiuk]

can we clarify what we mean by "friendly name" here?

[tonybalandiuk]

this has been approved/accepted. Closing it now although it has been accepted for the past few releases.