This quote comes to mind:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alfredlord101361.html

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@gmail.com> wrote:
An absolutely unusual reason for incrementing a major version number,
which traditionally is only done when some major change is being made.

And I don't think that a difference of 1.0 will make a difference in
people's minds.

-W




On 19/02/2014, Mark Proctor <mproctor@codehaus.org> wrote:
> I'm providing some information on planned version policy changes within
> JBoss, that will most likely impact our next community release.
>
> Currently the project vs product version numbering is considered confusing
> by some people; especially when both the project and the product are on the
> same major version number. One of the ways JBoss wishes to address this is
> for the community major version to automatically increment just prior to the
> product release - if the community is on the same version. For example as
> JBoss BRMS 6.0 is about to release, with community currently also on 6.0 the
> next community release would be required to move to 7.0, instead of 6.1.
> Community can then do 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 etc until the product shifts to 7.0. At
> which point the community much shift to 8.0.
>
> Mark
>
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