[Xastir] Stable release plus version numbering

[Richard Polivka, N6NKO]

I believe that this is/was the way that the Linux kernel is sequenced. 
Up front, it would tell us where the package stands.

73 from 807,

Richard, N6NKO


Curt, WE7U wrote:
> I think we should put out a stable release as soon as possible.
>
> This seems like a good time to do it as it has been some months
> since the last, plus the codebase has been fairly stable, with
> mostly bug-fixes going in for a while.
>
> This is just a feeler to see if anyone has any major headaches with
> it.  If not, how about a release date sometime in the first couple
> of weeks of April?
>
> This would either be release 1.8.6 or we could start using the
> recommended numbering scheme and go with 2.0:
>
> <http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Release-Practice-HOWTO/index.html>
>
> The third digit is supposed to be patch levels for a release, as in
> major.minor.patch numbering.  If we adopted this strategy then we
> could go with 2.1 for our next development version and 2.2 for the
> following stable release.
>
> Thoughts?
>
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