Hi Andrea,
I believe it was Chrome that popularised the "every other release is a
major release" thing, and so of course FireFox ended up following suit
(number envy?). Fortunately FireFox has LTS\ESR releases, so sensible
organisations use those.
Personally I'm a fan of the current Semantic Versioning -
https://semver.org/ - At least I'm assuming that's what GS is using and
it's not just a coincidence. Sure GS has major new features in 2.12.x
that are not in 2.8.x, but it's basically API compatible between
versions. The recent QGIS 2.x to 3.x is a prime example of a good use of
a Major increase because it is largely API incompatible.
I suppose if GeoServer is going to continue always being backwards
compatible then switching number scheme away won't lose anything, and in
this era of version inflation it may become clearer to some users how
far behind they are. But if it later starts having jumps where the API
changes significantly (ala QGIS 2->3), that's going to get really
confusing ("So lets see, 34 can go to... 43, then you need to manually
go to 44, then you ....").
This reminded me of the thread last year where I posted the versions for
public GeoServer boxes -
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Stats-on-GeoServer-versions-as-currently-deployed-td5314686.html
- it really depends what the motivations are for the old versions. I
haven't done similar with MapServer as yet which might offer some
interesting insights into the end-user psychology of upgrading as
they're at 7.1 I think, but over 20+ years.
Just my 2p,
Cheers,
Jonathan
On 2018-07-12 18:27, Andrea Aime wrote:
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 7:21 PM, Chris Snider
<chris.sni...@polarisalpha.com <mailto:chris.sni...@polarisalpha.com>>
wrote:
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.
Wondering what do they do with popular browsers, updating their major
number once every few months?
Cheers
Andrea
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