Fwd: Versioning/release policy proposal

2006-10-06 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
Not sure this got through ... so resending Begin forwarded message: From: Richard Frith-Macdonald Date: 5 October 2006 11:28:37 BDT To: Adam Fedor [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gregory John Casamento [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nicola Pero [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Developer GNUstep gnustep-dev@gnu.org Subject:

Re: Fwd: Versioning/release policy proposal

2006-10-06 Thread Dennis Leeuw
Hi Richard, A clear document, the only thing I miss is a rationale for the use of the SONAME with a major.minor structure, instead of the more common major. I think this would help in the understanding why, and resulting in less discussion. I could even imagine that you use the SONAME major

Re: Fwd: Versioning/release policy proposal

2006-10-06 Thread Fred Kiefer
I like this proposal very much, there is one area, where I see problems, but we could wait until we actually face them. This is the question, who will be willing to work on the bugfix releases? Most developers will spend their time and efforts on the new unstable release, then somebody needs to