Hi All,
I think Glamour should be released as 2.5. This would help in stating
that this is a significant release (for example Flex and Flex 1.5). But
I agree with your versioning science Geoff, FarCry 3.0 should be kept
for the next release of FarCry which has significant improvements under
the hood, and functionality wise, which presumably will be the next
release after Glamour.
So yeah, I think 2.5 could be a good option, because I don't think 2.4
signifies the major UI changes it brings. But I think 3.0 is too far,
because its not a major technical, functionality upgrade.
Thats my two bobs.
Scott Mebberson
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Geoff Bowers wrote:
Folks,
We're having a bit of internal debate of the next official milestone
number or version if you like for FarCry CMS.
Should Glamour be 2.4 or 3.0??
Our current philosophy really works on the basis of no primary version
number change if there is no technical backward compatability issues.
For example we moved from 1 to 2 with the release of 6.1 and the
implementation of component features only availble in 6.1. We moved
from 2.2 to 2.3 when there was a complete i18n of the admin interface
(ie. major feature change). We moved from 2.3.1 to 2.3.2 when we
released a collection of significant bug fixes and minor enhancements.
For more gumph on this philosophy try:
The science of version numbering
http://blog.daemon.com.au/archives/000276.html
We were not expecting a move to 3.0 until we relied on CF7 specific
functionality in the core library.
The problem is really that although the Glamour updater should
seamlessly upgrade your current FarCry version for any CF server 6.1+,
the UI overhaul is perhaps the most dramatic change that any *user* ie
contributor of content, will have seen in the history of the product. We
will have to rewrite all user documentation and training materials to
accommodate the change. And I'm thinking that some of our major
customers (yourselves included) are going to see this as a "user
backward compatability issue".
Don't get me wrong, the UI changes are all improvements -- really
*significant* improvements (by comparison 2.3 tortures me!). There are
little if any technical challenges anticipated in upgrading. But
perhaps we should be flagging to the community at large that this will
not be the normal, subtle, behind the scenes update you are use to with
typical FarCry upgrades.
What do people think?
-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/
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