On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Jerry Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2011, at 11:40 PM, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote: >> Why do we need to bump version number to 0.4.2 and start new vote >> instead of re-tagging 0.4.1 with the EC2 fix? > > We're hoping to avoid confusion with two 0.4.1 versions floating around out > there, one with the bugfix, and one without.
Correct -- it avoids all chances of any confusion -- to an open source project, version numbers are cheap / free, and they are rarely influenced by marketing reasons, so the knowledge of exactly what someone has is worth any 'harm' by incrementing the version number imo.
