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On 10/29/06, Trustin Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
The previous thread on versioning scheme is becoming very long, so I want to
split it into two by summarizing what we agreed on. Alex summarized our
current versioning scheme here:
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/directory/Version+Numbering+Scheme
I have moved the page to:
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DIRxPMGT/Version+Numbering+Scheme
Seemed to be a better place to live for that document.
And a very important thing is that "We must always give the URLs from
wiki through the autoexported pages which will be something like:
http://cwiki.apache.org/DIRxPMGT/Version+Numbering+Scheme
This is important to keep the Confluence instance alive. However the
autoexport plugin for Confluence currently does not as intended due to
incompatibility problems with the latest Confluence version. So we do
not have static pages for some of out already edited spaces. I hope
all will be fine soon.
I agree with his idea mostly, but there are two points to raise:
1. 1.5 -> 2.0 vs 1.9 -> 2.0 vs 2.1 -> 2.2
1.5 is a very arbitrary number and this rule cannot be applied to the future
similar changes. What happens if we move to Java 6? What happens we
already released 1.7 and if we move to Java 7? 1.9 has also a similar
problem; what happens if we already released 1.8? There's no way to
distinguish from previous releases because we are out of bullet.
2.1 -> 2.2 also has a problem that 2.0 will never be released, which is kind
of weird. Releasing 2.0-M1/2/3/4...and then RC1/2/3... and finally 2.0 can
be a solution, but it makes the even/odd scheme pointless because we can
just use 'M{number}' to state that it's unstable. Of course, we can start
over with this whole new scheme.
2. Clarify the meaning of minor version number.
'may or may not' sounds very ambiguous. We need to clarify it.
We can just go 1.5 or 1.9 not settling down the version numbering scheme,
but we will encounter the same problem on and on. I'm not a perfectionist,
but I want to set up a nice rule that can be applied for as many cases as we
can cover. Now the thread is hot, it's a great time to gather all opinions
and to improve our version numbering scheme.
Trustin
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