Hi all, on the docboard list there was an inquiry of exactly what the final version name will be after we exit alpha and beta.
Ie will it be 2.5final, 2.6, 3.0 etc. Given that people are working on video tutorials now, they don't want to say the wrong version name and confuse people. I'll lay out my own views briefly, I'd personally prefer we move to a whole number versioning system and use numbers after the decimal to convey bug fixes. So next version would be 3.0, the following would be 4.0 etc. My reasoning for this is multifold 1) Under the current method a user cannot tell at a glance whether any particular version is a bug fix release or a major feature improvement or bug fixes 2) Users familiar with typical version naming can easily be confused with documentation - if a tutorial is written for 2.49 then the logical inference is 2.50 is almost exactly the same and probably only contains bug fixes or other minor differences. So those of us doing new user support have to explain that 2.43 is drastically different from 2.49 in terms of UI, and so tutorials written for the former aren't perfectly transferable to the later. 3) Most media (magazines, websites, television) are used to more standard naming systems and thus unless they are highly CG focused ignore minor number increases. By switching to a different versioning system I think it will increase the amount of coverage and hence attract more new users and developers. 4) Individuals who have control over software installation and purchase decisions who have no technical expertise (a extremely common case - think schools, and most businesses) use version numbers to evaluate software. (No we aren't going to install 2.50 it is only a .01 difference from 2.49 so would be a waste of our software administrator time). I've talked with some others, Matt Ebb prefers a two decimal system so 2.6.0 2.7.0 etc. with bug fixes being 2.6.1 etc. Some other open source projects do odd numbers are development and even are stable so 2.6.0 would be the next stable; 2.7.0 would be a development version, and 2.8.0 would be the stable version after that. So that documenters and authors can begin working on final versions of their docs without leaving in wrong/confusing terms I think we should try and make a decision on this soon. Preferably this up comming meeting. LetterRip _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
