I think updating the front page and the downloads sections with a revision number whenever nesecary updates are made available would solve most of the confusion.
Also, Karl, kamikaze is more than a release. I'm not sure what the internal description is, but I will say when openwrt skipped from white russian to kamikaze, there was an internal paradigm shift from one method of running everything to a different method of running everything. Kinda like when microsoft came out with windows, and changed their OS name from DOS to Windows. if someone internally could elaborate on the details of the difference between wr and kk, I'd love to know more about it. On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Karl O. Pinc <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 05/15/2009 05:54:03 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >> On Thu, 14 May 2009, Christ Schlacta wrote: >> >> > most linux distros either push out package updates using the package >> > manager, or they provide a revision bump when they release a new >> > revision. if it was 8.09.1, or 8.09.576 I would make the logical >> > assumption that it was a bug fix revision and wouldn't have made the >> > logical inference that 8.09 == 8.09. >> >> only after i looked closely did i notice that openwrt has *both* a >> tag and a branch labelled "8.09", which i think is unnecessarily >> confusing. something labelled with a numeric version such as "8.09" >> should really be a tag. branches should have more descriptive names >> such as "dev" or "ongoing" or something like that, to avoid confusion. > > IMHO 8.09 is a descriptive name, but it also clearly leaves open > the opportunity for confusion as to whether the referent is a > tag or a branch. I've always thought release nicknames (i.e. kamikaze) > redundant, but their use as branch names would help remove > the confusion. (Although I've no idea whether kamikaze refers > to just the 8.0 branch or the entire version 8 branch.) > > The issue is complicated though because (I presume) they'll > be time before a branch when the latest development version > has a name but is still in trunk. > > Anyway, it does not matter so long as people can talk > without misunderstanding. Misunderstanding is what > people do so this is difficult to resolve. :-) > > Karl <[email protected]> > Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." > -- Robert A. Heinlein > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users > -- (\_/) This is Bunny. Copy and paste Bunny (='.'=) into your signature to help him gain (")_(") world domination. _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
