On 7/1/07, Michael Wechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bob Harner wrote:
> Lenya devs,
>
> The 1.4 release has taken almost 3 years to develop, and in the
> process it has become a rather major rewrite of Lenya. Does it
> warrant being called 2.0? When the release is finally announced, a
> 2.0 designation might grab more attention, which is a good thing.
do you really want to outsmart people, because this is what it sounds to me?
I don't think the ASF is about marketing people into something, but
rather providing great code/product and
because of that people will start using it. But that means patience ...
Sure, I agree with that. And I am only proposing calling it 2.0
because I honestly consider the changes substantial enough. The
restructuring of the application into modules, the switch to UUID's,
all the refactoring and API improvements that Andreas and others have
done, the much more extensive support for publication templating and
fallback, the New Publication Wizard... There are probably a dozen
major changes -- disruptive things which took a long time to work out
-- that might collectively justify a 2.0 designation.
Anyway, it's just a proposal I threw out there. I wonder what others think?
> To me a new major version number implies:
>
> * major architectural changes
> * significant upgrade effort
I am afraid that this (upgrade effort) is very true
> * major new functionality
> * lots of cool new things to learn about
btw, is there a list of all the new functionality and cool things to
learn yet?
http://lenya.apache.org/docs/1_4/ lists 8 things under the topic
"What's New in Lenya 1.4". We could and should come up with a much
larger list, though.
Cheers
Michael
>
> and a ".0" minor version implies:
>
> * some risk of bugginess, until the ".1" or ".01" release comes out.
>
> That describes the current Lenya code pretty well.
>
> I think the only real cost of the change would be updating the
> documentation, wiki and bugzilla, which I would be happy to do.
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