[dry_soup]

I must have missed a few versions. The last version of GNOME I remember using is 3 point something

[dEnigma]

They changed their versioning scheme so 40 followed 3.38

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME#Releases

[HeckFeck]

[sarcasm] I am looking forward to the days when we ditch memorable release versions and just use the git commit hash to identify a release. [/sarcasm]

[favadi]

Why would anyone want to use Ubuntu 4ee7bb27a0ff1cbc203a0df93919980ccbcfd4f1 over Ubuntu 22.04?

[rolisz]

Why? There is value in having some sort of easily identifiable ordering to versions

[zorr]

How would that work for deprecations and new API introductions? GNOME is built on top of glib/gobject/gtk and a host of other libraries which all have to be ABI-compatible in some way. And GNOME itself is used as a base platform for applications.

Having a predictable versioning scheme helps limit the number of releases for downstream application maintenance work. You can't expect applications to have the full git tree available at build or runtime to make some features conditionally available.

[Maken]

You should work for Asus.

[tuyiown]

dates. dates are good. YYYY.MM.patch.