Just a thought;
Many businesses and governments will grant a project authority to include a
major level of a product, for example GeoServer 2.x. If GeoServer moves to a
version numbering scheme that adjusts the commonly viewed major version number,
then these users may not be able to upgrade as readily. These types of
institutions have a longer lead time to approve major upgrades from 2.x to 3.x
etc.
Chris Snider
Senior Software Engineer
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From: Andrea Aime [mailto:andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it]
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 10:33 AM
To: Geoserver-devel <geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Geoserver-devel] Thinking out loud... should the next GeoServer be
"GeoServer 22.0"?
Hi,
thinking out loud, so don't take me too seriously but... should we follow the
GeoTools example and
switch GeoServer version numbering to a "x.y" approach, just like GeoTools did?
I keep on having people asking me things like "but is Geoserver 2.13.1 much
different than 2.8.3?"
Heck yes, it's years of development in between... it's a major jump, even if
the number may not make
it look like that.
GeoServer 1.x ended at 1.7, so GeoServer 2.14.0 should likely be renamed to 22
(7 + 14 + 1, counting
also 2.0.0 in the mix).
We were keeping 3.x for a "epic storm" kind of change, but even when we
switched to 2.x we maintained
seamless upgrades, so I guess it's not just in our style to do that kind of
change, and we can probably
drop the "2."
Opinions?
Cheers
Andrea
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