Believe me when I say that I am well aware of how important promotion is in a project, but I still don't think that we should inflate a version number just to attract new users. FOP has now had articles published about it more than once in XML Journal, which is a far greater sign to users of FOP's capabilities than a version number. If we really wanted to be more appealing from a marketing perspective, I'd suggest that we instead use a milestone release system for production releases and leave the version numbers "under the covers" so to speak.
Although, in all honesty, I don't think we really need to do that. FOP's got enough good PR without us slinging version numbers about to get a little bit more. This does touch on a more important issue, though. Do we have a standard for our version numbers? I was thinking that, until 1.0, it'd be a good idea for each release to denote what percentage of the FO spec we feel we've covered. For example, 0.20 would be a release supporting a fifth of the FO spec features. Just a thought. -----Original Message----- From: Alex McLintock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 8:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: new batik Alex wrote: > > Any chance of upping the version number of FOP to something like 0.91 > > because some people don't seem to like using software as low as 0.24 At 12:45 13/05/2002, Keiron Liddle wrote: >I didn't know making software was as easy as setting a number. I should have put a smiley in there but it is a serious point. Some people are not using Fop because of its low version number. You and I know that the version 1.0 will be the one which complies with the XSL:FO spec and we are a long way from that. FOP does not cope with the whole spec but it is quite satisfactory for many jobs. However there is a purely psychological problem with using software with such a low version number - it discourages some potential users. That is why I suggested skipping some version numbers but still keeping it below version 1.0 Ale Openweb Analysts Ltd, London: Software For Complex Websites http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ Free Consultancy for London Companies thinking of Open Source Software. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
