On Thursday 25 September 2003 11:23, Miguel wrote: > I want to start a dialog about planning the upcoming release schedule > for Jmol. > > The g3d code is in pretty good shape. And over the next few weeks I want > to start wrapping it up for pre-release testing. > > In addition, I want to reraise the issue of the release numbering > convention. I want to slow down the increment counter for major version > releases ... to comply more with software industry conventions. > > I propose the following: > - release version 8 soon > - reserve version number 9 for a future release of > changes/bug fixes to the b6 branch > - the g3d code will be used in releases starting with version 10
Yes, that sounds very good. > Beginning with release 10, we will follow the following convention: > - then, follow a scheme of MajorVersion.MinorVersion.bugfix > - MajorVersion will be reserved for significant rewrites > - Every feature addition will increase the MinorVersion > - bug fixes will not release the MinorVersion version > - *every* release to sourceforge changes a number > - every release has three number i.e. 10.0.0 Sounds reasonable... the current scheme did not really show any advantages... > I am still thinking about the pre-release versioning. I don't really like > using letters. Nevertheless, this is my current thinking: > - Prerelease versions use a letter as the MinorVersion > - a => alpha test - internal > - b => beta test - external > - c => candidate release > - alpha test would be 10.a.0, 10.a.1, etc. > - beta test would be 10.b.0, 10.b.1, etc. > - candidate releases would be 10.c.0, 10.c.1, etc. Never seen this, but I think this is a very good proposal... let's do it like this. > As I said, I hope to start some prerelease testing of the g3d code within > the next few weeks. So we will have to give it a name. A name? In addition to a number, as in 'the 'X' release'? Molecule names then? That should give us enough names for the next 300 years... Egon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] PhD on Molecular Representation in Chemometrics Nijmegen University http://www.cac.sci.kun.nl/people/egonw/ GPG: 1024D/D6336BA6 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
