Re:CalVer: Calendar Versioning
by thebeardisred on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:02PM
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At CoreOS (circa 2013+) we used something ideologically similar to CalVer but with tweaked semantics.
As per our documentation (https://coreos.com/releases/):
CoreOS Container Linux version numbers are determined by the number of days since the CoreOS epoch, July 1, 2013, at the time the release is built for the Alpha channel.
There were definitely challenges but it provided a rigorous method to ensure monotonically increasing values. It had a useful side effect of getting people out of the habit of "caring" about which version they were running and instead allowed us to focus on simply "being up to date."
As per our documentation (https://coreos.com/releases/): CoreOS Container Linux version numbers are determined by the number of days since the CoreOS epoch, July 1, 2013, at the time the release is built for the Alpha channel.
There were definitely challenges but it provided a rigorous method to ensure monotonically increasing values. It had a useful side effect of getting people out of the habit of "caring" about which version they were running and instead allowed us to focus on simply "being up to date."