Hello,

I've been working on updating a Fortress app of mine to take advantage of
avalon-repository.  However, I've noticed that the DefaultInitialContext
constructor has changed and the simpler constructors are now part of a
DefaultInitialContextFactory.  So a couple of things:

The javadocs on the avalon-repository site say "1.3" at the top, but this
cannot be accurate.  Or at least they aren't the latest 1.3 javadocs.  I
imagine they are probably closer to 1.2, but I'm not sure.  This makes it
harder to write my application.  So, mini-proposal #1:

 * javadocs should be published for only the latest STABLE release unless
   otherwise noted in the link description

Secondly, according to the APR versioning scheme [1] which we discussed
before [2] and got a general consensus to adopt, these changes qualify as a
MAJOR version number change because software written against 1.2 will not
compile against the current 1.3 snapshots.  This means 1.3 _should_ be a 2.0
release.  This brings me to mini-proposal #2:

 * we need to official adopt a versioning scheme and begin enforcing it

I think the APR rules make sense.  We can work on a way to automate it or
whatever, I don't care.   We just need consistency.

Thoughts?

I'll bring the versioning scheme up as an official vote if necessary.

J. Aaron Farr
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[1] http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html
[2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=107730780100003&r=1&w=2

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