The current problem we are trying to solve is that it is hard to know which build is a major release for those who aren't intimate. For 1.6, the golden release was 1.6.4, which is thoroughly confusing to a general user who doesn't follow the development cycle. If you only care about the final release, you expect that you would migrate to 1.6.0 as the final release and 1.6.1 would be an update to that.
If someone is commenting on a bug in a pre-release build, something labeled 1.6.0-RC1, then they will know what build they are using. If they don't, then they probably shouldn't be using it. I strongly believe this use case trumps the other issues. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Scott Blum <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Kelly Norton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> fwiw, I've never found myself sorting GWT distros but I do find myself >> wanting to uniquely identify them all the time. Why do you think people will >> be so eager to ignore part of the label? I would actually be surprised if >> any form of naming fixes the few incidences of the conversation you mention. >> I tend to think those are because people really do think they are using the >> release ... only to realize later they never updated their project. >> > > Heh, sorry, that was probably not the best way of making this point: I > think more obvious is usually better, because you don't have to think about > it. This means less wasted time, and less chance of confusion. > > Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the current system is perfect or that we > shouldn't change it. I'm sure there are better things than we're doing > right now, which might help with the problem of identifying a release vs. a > milestone or rc. But I do think a system where the numeric portion of the > version is non-unique invites confusion. > > What if we were more consistent with the parentheticals, like in the GWT > release > notes<http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/releases/1.7/distro-source/core/src/release_notes.html> > ? > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
