http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Short-term-plans-for-official-releases-tp3874085p3918446.html
it sounds like a good idea; I would like to suppress the mention to Ubuntu and simply describe the naming convention we use.
> Hi Jacopo,
>
> Maybe we could add an explanation on top of the download page, to make things more clear. From
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/Release+Plan#ReleasePlan-GeneralReleasePolicies>
> We could say
>
> <<Release branches are created once per year, so far in April . We use the same release numbering scheme than Ubuntu (for instance, 9.4 means released in 2009.April).>>
>
> Jacques
>
> From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <
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>> Hi Jacques,
>>
>> On Oct 18, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>>
>>> The same (than Bruno) was also asked later by Ruth later (in another thread) BTW...
>>> What don't you like in the release name convention? The Ubuntu way?
>>
>> It is not a big deal but, since we have very few releases an old traditional sequence would have worked fine imo.
>> Now we have 09.04 but people are confused because they may think there is also a 09.03 or it is not obvious that 09.04 is greater than 4.
>> And last point, it is not that clear that 09.04 means 2009.04...
>>
>> But at this point it is fine and imo having one convention and sticking to it is much better than changing it.
>>
>> Jacopo
>>