We've been rather messy about this in the past, but I'm hoping to converge toward semantic versioning: http://semver.org/
0.9.0 will fit since we are adding new functionality in backward compatible manner. On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Flavio Junqueira <f...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Gwen, > > What's the expected meaning of the individual digits of the version for > this community? Could you give me some insight here? > > -Flavio > > > On 08 Sep 2015, at 18:19, Gwen Shapira <g...@confluent.io> wrote: > > > > Hi Kafka Fans, > > > > What do you think of making the next release (the one with security, new > > consumer, quotas, etc) a 0.9.0 instead of 0.8.3? > > > > It has lots of new features, and new consumer was pretty much scoped for > > 0.9.0, so it matches our original roadmap. I feel that so many awesome > > features deserve a better release number. > > > > The downside is mainly some confusion (we refer to 0.8.3 in bunch of > > places), and noisy emails from JIRA while we change "fix version" field > > everywhere. > > > > Thoughts? > >
