On Jan 15, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
> I agree that the current dev trunk (0.8a) is superior to the current
> stable branch (0.7.2s), however there needs to be a trailing stable
> that
> people can rely on while the development happens in the highly-
> volatile
> trunk. That way, by the time of the next major release (0.8s), all the
> great new things we've done will have already survived weeks if not
> months of use and refinement.
OK, so then you see point releases coming quickly, such as 0.7, 0.8,
0.9, 0.10, 0.11, etc.? IOW, we don't go from 0.9 to 1.0?
> I don't believe we are acting differently than the average open source
> project here.
I don't think that there is such a beast. I've seen project whose
numbering started at 1.0, and was up to 4.0 before the thing worked
well. I've seen others that were amazing products that did everything
they were supposed to that were at 0.2.
I know that you've heard this before, but for the sake of the
newcomers out there, I believe that the Dabo framework is way past a
1.0 designation. The visual tools are well short of 1.0. To have them
both at the same release number is silly, IMO.
> FWIW what you describe is basically what we were doing up until 0.6,
> except we didn't have a stable branch at all.
And I thought that all we did since then was add a stable branch.
The only reason we held off on the new changes for 0.7 was that we
were irreversibly breaking the 0.6 code with the changes we made;
they were not incremental improvements. We haven't done anything like
that since 0.7.
-- Ed Leafe
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