Johnny Hughes wrote:
This was discussed on the CentOS-Devel mailing list and approved by the CentOS Board.
Yes, it was discussed at great length on centos-devel. The core developers proposed a date-based versioning system which met with much opposition. I certainly wasn't convinced by their arguments.
It is what we are using in the future. I suggest you become familiar with it.
You can call it what you like. I'll still call it CentOS 7.1.
Ron