[collectd] Proposal for collectd version numbering scheme

[Muralito]

Hi,

During the past months i have seen what seems to ba a fast growing in 
the collectd version number.

Obviosuly collectd is in active development, but in general it's hard to 
update software without being confident that the software will work as 
expected, and the fast numbering

IMHO, if the development process is not affected, maybe it's better to 
have a clear version numbering scheme (i googled for it and haven't 
found anything related to collectd).

Maybe having a stable release, and a testing or unstable release (I 
supose that most of us could only install the stable release on some 
servers, and the test version on a few test server(s).) Maybe this is 
not good because less people will be testing?

I haven't seen the code, but other way could be to release two packages, 
one for the core an another one with the plugins. The idea behind this 
is that the core will be stable and have fewer releases than the 
plugins. Just like nagios and nagios-plugins.

Any thoughts?

Regards,
Muralito.