[ jEdit-devel ] What is the "final" release?

[Kazutoshi S. <k_s...@f2...>]

Hi Slava,

Some jEdit developers discussed about the next release which might be
4.3final. In the discussion, I got a question about the term "final".

Current sequence of releases (which I understood) is, some pre releases
(4.3preX), and the final release (4.3final) possibly followed by patch
releases (4.3.1, 4.3.2, ...).

But then, I think the term "final" is just misleading. It is not the
final. I did misunderstand as if no patch releases will take place
after the "final" release (because 4.2final was so) before looking into
MiscUtilities.buildToVersion().

If it can be followed by some patch releases, I think "4.3.0" is more
natural and easy to understand because some large projects now use this
numbering (GCC, Apache, Subversion, OpenOffice.org, ...).

If the term "final" had some special meaning or releasing policy, could
you please explain?
-- 
k_satoda