Release schedule plans

[Shane H. W. Travis]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Gervase Markham wrote:

> If we were to do this, to avoid confusion, I would suggest abandoning
> the "2.18" designation and shipping "2.20" rather than renumbering all
> the releases and branches. But that's not a big point.

My feeling is that having to do all this renumbering would entail some
short-term pain, to be sure... but it's better than the long-term pain of
explaining ad infinitum why there was never a 2.18 release, and why
the release numbering goes from 2.16 straight to 2.20.

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