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The JGit/EGit nightly builds use bundle versions like this: 1.2.0.201110222014 The qualifier is very hard to parse for mere mortals, since the most interesting info (day and maybe month) is embedded in a long sequence of numbers. Could you change this to e.g. 1.2.0.20111022-2014? That would match the format used everywhere else in Eclipse.
(In reply to comment #1) > Could you change this to e.g. 1.2.0.20111022-2014? That would match the format > used everywhere else in Eclipse. From my JEE workbench plugins directory: $ ls|grep "eclipse.*\-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\.jar"|wc -l 176 $ ls|grep "eclipse.*[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\.jar"|wc -l 619 Counting features the "illegible" format is still in majority. There are a number of variants in there, with/without a v, with milestone, with hyphen before time, without time, with - or _ as separator, etc. Before we change, if someone issues a patch; What is the foundations recommendation?
Unfortunately, the foundation doesn't have common rules about this. But http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Version_Numbering#When_to_change_the_qualifier_segment recommends vYYYYMMDD-HHMM. The exact format doesn't really matter, as long as it increases monotonically.
