On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:22:55AM -0700, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > >All even numbered releases will be considered stable revisions. > > What do we do for bumping of major numbers? Say we want Apache 3.0. > How do we do the -development release for that? Linux has done the > 1.99 series to do development for 2.0. (What is Perl doing for 6.0 > development?)
i think what is currently being discussed with regard to the next stable linux release shows how you handle the version-before-major-jump numbering. the development tree is 2.5 -- the next stable tree could be either 2.6 or 3.0, depending on how major the differences are relative to 2.4. jumping the major number of the development branch presumes you know beforehand what major changes are going to go into that development branch. what happens when someone commits a change to 2.x that people then decide warrants making the next stable release a 3.x? jim
